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1 fir S. -v 't 5 i- Boston Sunday Globe February 4, 1973 43 But project rapped as 'cosmetic' $5m Huntington Av. plan almost ready ,1 CSS Welcha! I I iKgP 12 oz Frozen Orange Juice Stop Shop Birds-Eye Tasti-Stripes Fried potatoes you bake Welchade Grape Drink 46 oz cans (Single can 34J) 10 oz pkgs (Single pkg25) Avenue extension, from Copley Square, was finished in 1940. MBTA board chairman Henry S. Lodge sympathizes with the museum's plight, and says the idea of relocating the tracks is being seriously reviewed.

But, he added, "we wouldn't consider a new subway now." It would cost at least $30 million and there is uncertainty over the time-table for the building of the relocated Orange transit line to Forest Hills. Its route over the Penn Central trackbed partly parallels the Huntington avenue trolley route. A case for a tunnel extension, though, is being worked up by at least three community "umbrella" groups who speak for dozens of neighborhood and civic associations. They include the Back Bay Federation for Community Development. Its executive director Daniel J.

Ahem, scoffs at the TOPICS plan as merely "aesthetic improvement" which would "preclude any real transportation improvement for many years perhaps decades to come." Others in opposition are the Fenway Interagency Group, which has already displayed impressive strength in housing disputes; and The Circle Federation, concerned chiefly with the future of Brigham Circle and vicinity. All three community blocs promise to speak out loudly at the City Hall hearing on Mar. 15. can 46 ez can Pineapple- in I Grapefruit UNFIK 31 Stop Shop Symphony Hall and land owned by the Christian Science Church. The undertaking, when first proposed in 1968 by the BRA, had an estimated price tag of $1.2 million.

The sharp cost rise is attributed only in part to inflation. The rest is accounted for by later additions, like the pedestrian overpass, the clusters of bright globe lights, similar to those on Boylston Street and at the Government Center plaza; and the artistic works. The institutions origi-' nally balked at surrendering land, even though the state Department of Public Utilities had warned the MBTA about the dangerously narrow street platforms. (By now all but the museum are said to be resigned, albeit reluctantly, to the necessity of the land-taking.) The BRA's role later diminished as Federal renewal funding sources dried up. But then the DPW offered to fill the breach through a Federal program called TOPICS (Traffic Operations to Increase Capacity and Safety.) Now the Federal Highway Administration and the DPW would split the cost.

Besides the BRA, the city Public Works and the Traffic and Parking Departments are also in on the team effort. The MBTA would upgrade track and signals, and shift the Northeastern storage tracks to between the two main tracks. To speed service, three of the eight stops would be eliminated. The museum, which moved to its present 15-acre site in 1909 from Copley Square, approves the basic plan. But if offers two alternative ideas to mm Not all of our all-week specials are in our ad many more in the store! HENRY S.

LODGE sees no solution spare its own "Green That the MBTA track be relocated to the curb. This would eliminate the need for a 200-foot long platform in the center reservation, and allow parking in the reservation. That a strict parking ban be imposed at the curb. William A. Bagnall, chairman of the museum's Huntington Avenue Project committee, charges that the present plan is an example of "project thinking" whose concept lacks enough depth or breadth.

"It attempts," he said, "to isolate an admitted dangerous stretch of roadway but does not rectify the root causes." Another museum official, who asked anonymity, says the MBTA ideally should extend the trolley tunnel to Brigham Circle. (This would also save thousands of students an extra fare.) He acknowledges that the MBTA, with priorities reshaped by Gov. Sargent's new transportation policy, probably lacks enough money for such a subway extension. The last Huntington By A. S.

Plotkin Globe Sta.f A $5 million plan to improve and beautify Huntington avenue, which has been developing for the past seven years, is close to completion. Eleventh-hour opposition from the Museum of Fine Arts and aggressive community groups, however, may force a major reappraisal and more delay. The plan is designed to not only make safer but to beautify the street in Boston's Back Bayand Fenway sections. Opponents scorn the idea as merely "cosmetic" and want an MBTA tunnel 1 extended rather than improvements made to the surface MBTA line running down the middle of the street. The proposed improvements are sponsored jointly by city and state agencies.

They would cover 1.6 miles, from the Prudential Center to Brigham Circle in Roxbury, along one of the city's busiest student Included is street widening (by taking narrow strips from institutional lawns or parking lots), which would allow wider and longer trolley platforms; new passenger shelters; and a pedestrian overpass at Northeastern University. Also, improved signals and left-turn lanes for traffic; better street and sidewalk lighting; a fence in the street median to deter jaywalking and, possibly, bolted to its decorative "sculpture" of metal and vandal-resistant plastic. The project's basic design is nearly completed by the Department of Public Works (DPW) consultant, Universal Engineering Corp. The sponsors are eager to have work start this year, and the city's Public Improvement Commission has scheduled a public hearing for March 15 at City Hall. The museum's big objection is to the request, by the DPW and the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), that it give up a strip of its Huntington Avenue frontage.

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