A proposal to cut a street across the Delta and through the former position of the statue of John Harvard is contained in a report submitted to the Massachusetts State Legislature by the Metropolitan Planning Division. This is part of a far-reaching plan to form a new traffic artery out of Boston and through Cambridge leading to the vicinity around Porter Square and Davis Square in Somerville.

To Widen Court St. in Boston

Court Street, in Boston, will be widened to take care of the increase in traffic out of Boston. To aid in caring for the great number of vehicles that are expected to use this street, it was deemed necessary by the Planning Board to widen Cambridge Street for several blocks at the end of the Cambridge Bridge and thus create a new thoroughfare. In order to relieve the congestion at Harvard Square, it is planned to remove the street railway tracks from Broadway and repave it. Thus with the new cut-off through the Delta, vehicles would have a well paved and short thoroughfare leading from the Cambridge Bridge along Cambridge Street and Broadway to the Delta where the machines can effect an easy turn into Oxford Street and on to Porter Square. It is also planned to reroute Oxford Street about 50 feet west at its southern end.

University Approves New Plan

The University authorities are entirely in accord with the new project which will in no way effect the site of Memorial Hall. The cut-off itself will be about 50 or 60 feet wide and is expected to cost about $100,000.