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Highway Boondoggles 2020: Boston’s Big Choice

The site of the future West Station, seen from the Cambridge Street overpass in Allston. A realignment of the Massachusetts Turnpike through this area could touch off a massive urban development scheme on the vacant Harvard-owned lands visible in the distance – but only if the state can figure out how to pay for it.

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