Ten O'Clock News; Brock Adams on southwest corridor

Or three people might give a beginning with the right. You're. Right. Testing testing. Lawyer Okay sure. I'm very pleased to be here this morning with Senator Kennedy Senator Brock and Representative Joe Moakley has been held in Washington by

Jip to get the rules out today. I didn't want to mention jokers he's been talking to me about this project as have the senators for over a year and saying let's get it done. The reason I'm here today is that this project represents a great deal more than just building a transit line or relocating a railroad line. It's really part of a whole urban renewal system that has been going on in Boston with the governor the lieutenant governor the mayor all struggling to see to it that there is really a thrust in this area of renewed housing renewed business areas and good transportation. Too many times in the past we used to just build transportation projects and then sort of let the fallout occur afterwards. The policy we're

trying to pursue in Boston and they were a leader in this and that's why we are here to feature this today is being followed by other cities of saying your transportation policy and your transportation system has got to work into the renewal of your city and this area is part of the renewal project in Boston. I'll give you some of the specifics. And it is the largest grant we've ever given any place in that. Can I give some kind of idea of the kind of clout that that Boston and this area have. But this is for six hundred and sixty nine million dollars. There are there are commitments in addition to that from private and other public sources for a billion dollars worth of redevelopment in this corridor. And I know the people in the corridor of

been waiting a long time to have it. We're going to take four point seven miles of the orange line and that's why I say this is part of really Transportation and Development where it is divided this city. We came up a year ago and help public meetings and town meetings and I've talked with the senators and the representatives from the area about it that this is divided the city. So the new project in the relocation of it it will be a depressed area so people can get across the highway. It we will remove the structure that is there in addition to that we're relocating the tracks for the high speed trains coming in to South Station so that we will put both mass transportation bus transportation as well as train transportation in the same area. The final part of the packages are a redevelopment project being

done through Hyde and a highway project to see that the area is completely connected. I think it is a very good day. And today 44 million dollars will flow out to finish the The design and engineering parts of it. The rest of the grants have been now approved. The EIA asses are over. Everybody's waited a long time and all I can say is Secretary of Transportation is I think these things have taken too long and we're trying to see to it that they have been faster and that's been my job. Get in there. It's all yours. You're now I'm with you. Well we welcome you Mr. Secretary and any time you want to come back to Massachusetts and make other announcements like this we will welcome them seriously we're enormously grateful to the secretary for

the giving the review and the time and the attention to this project which it is richly deserved for us so many years this project is valid on the basis of its merits. And the principal reason of its merits is because of the local community participation and activity over the period of these last 10 years they've taken the time they've consulted together they've worked with the state and local and federal agencies and we have the announcement which we've all waited for and worked for so closely today. I don't see this is really an ending of any effort by all of us at the local state and the federal level it is really a beginning. The secretary has announced a transportation policy but basically he's announcing a new sense of life and hope for a part of a great city and a number of communities that richly deserves this. This is a new sense of life is not measured in the thousands of jobs that will be created although they will be

years in the measure did in the new parks that will be here available to the people in this a community although they will be more in the new educational opportunities that will be available to thousands and tens of thousands of people in this community which will be made available. This truly is a great day. It's it's a beginning. We're grateful for his involvement and for his oversight he comes from the western part of this nation. A In Seattle Washington but he has been in the member of Congress he has been constantly aware of the many of the problems that we have faced in Massachusetts and throughout the Northeast all of us are grateful to his leadership. And I want to say what a pleasure it has been to work with Senator brook and to Joe Moakley the Governor Dukakis who we talked with earlier today and unavoidably not here with Tommy O'Neill and Mayor White to the business leaders and particularly the community leaders. It's a job

well done and we pledge to you our continuing help and support to see that this job is is finished. I want to thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Secretary I also want to welcome you to the city and tell you how genuinely and how sincerely we are to have you here in our great city. Even if you hadn't brought us a check for some 40 million dollars today and to my colleague Senator Kennedy to Representative Goodman representative craven and to all of the wonderful people here let me say this has been the culmination of a long effort on many of our parks to bring to fruition this day. The secretary this wall that has divided this community for too long will now come down and we are

grateful for that. There should not be any wall dividing the people of Boston and we don't want any more walls dividing the people of Boston. And for too long since i 95 was first conceived and the bulldozers came in and knocked down the buildings we have been sitting here with this barren land with this blight on this great city. And we're so grateful that at long last there will be no further blight and that will be as has been said education no housing Industrial not recreational facilities as well as transportation facilities available. This matter has gone on for a long time and I would be remiss if I didn't give some credit to your predecessor Mr. Secretary Secretary Bill Cohen of the past administration who was the secretary of transportation and who did such a fine job and from whom from whom I got a commitment letter to on this project before they got out of office.

But I take nothing away from you Mr. Secretary because once you have always demonstrated even before you took over this job the kind of man you are and the insight that you have had. And I think it's just tremendously important that the president saw fit to ask you to serve at transportation and you've been family you've been equitable. You have your own initiative and you have understood the need of the Department of Transportation to do more than Bill transit systems. You brought in the whole community and you have done it well. I also want to pay my respects to Fred Sal bocce who is the head of our transportation system here in Massachusetts the secretary of transportation who has done a effective job for so long in bringing this about. And I want to give credit to him and to the people of this community Mr. Secretary the people of this community who have waited so long and who work so hard.

And I want to tell all factors the coalition and others that they will be given an opportunity as this development goals along to hand important to bring this community together. We have had serious Gazan I community Mr. President Mr. Secretary as you very well know we have had a divided community. But this gives us an opportunity to hand a united community. And I pray to God that we will have that united community as the Representative King's also. I mean since this time there may be many others who have been working toward this project Dan Richardson and others I that just too many to mention by name a secretary. But we all know that this is a great day for all of us but most importantly it is a great day for the city of Boston and its environments who will benefit from this project. And thank you. Thank you Administration for carrying on and bringing it to fruition. And I just can't tell you again I'm very very pleased that I am personally to have you here in our city Mr..

Thank. God. I'm a writer. We welcome you to Boston. And over here is Representative nigga Nello who guides our transportation committee at the state level who has worked very hard and ever been very very true to this project and to see this barrier come down to see other development going on in this area. It is the most heartwarming and the Senatus Thank you all for helping to bring Boston together. Thank you very much. Thank you. Secretary Brock Senator Kennedy some of the books I'm happy to join with my colleagues represent a very good in seeing 30 years would come to the point of victory. Thirty years

ago when Governor Bradford watt full of his massed on highway plan for I-95 to destroy our community it spent 30 years of effort. And I'm delighted to join with these other public officials in saying to this community of Roxbury in Jamaica Plain Yes we are going to rebuild your community. We are going to give you a beautiful community to live in. What packs. New construction. New Community College. It's sincerely. Mr. Secretary and senators. Great day for rock community. Thank you. Thank you. Well King hear me out. KING I think I saw him. Never go get milk you know it's all been said. I think you need to get the. And the album

ready to take the position because without those without the check the people came together around that coalition that's not the way we would be getting run over right now. I think you know my. I guess we can close this by Fred C'mere very our best guy gets a best do you think. Thank you all very much we're going to go out go through the Orange Line tour the area so that we've got an on the ground look at it. Then afterwards we're going to have a meeting. Some of us on some of the other problems railroads and a natural gas and mass transit that a number of the things Boston has. And I want you to know some people that are very effective in letting us know all the

things that they want to have changed and so we will be doing that this morning and going back this afternoon so pleasure to have all of you here I am and I am very pleased that this has started and we will now go the Senators Fred myself and some of the others to go out on the Orange Line itself. Thank you. Thank you. This is a little chaotic for a story you know it's alright if we've got enough tape left. Come a little closer closer. We can hear it. Now let him go ahead. I'm going out very well I was you know let's go ahead. You know my stuff. Let's just go ahead and do it. Don't worry about a teen any old place is all right. You know there's a great story. All right I just was the fastest. Good OK.

OK Mr. Secretary the Nassa for example has projected I guess a lot of other people have projected that over the next 15 20 years with even a 6 percent rate of increase in air traffic every year and this year we've seen a tremendous rate of increase in airports particularly O'Hare and may alter all the major airports in the country are really going to begin to get pretty crowded and the noise limitations and expansion limitations they face. I Are we going to be left with a sort of no growth era situation in a few years. Now what we're doing is we're moving to the wider body aircraft where we can carry a great many more people on a single plane. This is the whole movement. The second thing is we're requiring them to be much less noisy. More fuel efficient and so on. The result of all that is that we will be able to increase the capacity normally and have less noise by 1985. One of the one of the nastier projections is that there's because of technical reasons like wake of Florida seas from airplanes and things like that where there is a limit to the number

of wide bodied planes we can fly and people here in Boston say that ground facilities for instance at the airports are going to get really crowded just parking for example in a few years. Would you say. Oh aren't we going to be a little nervous about the prospect of airport expansion or is noise reduction going to allow us perhaps to expand. Eventually when the need arises. Well what we're doing is we're shifting now so that we are beginning to put mass transportation facilities into airports just like those done with half roll in London. We also are well aware of the fact that we will have to do more transportation planning in other words short ranges will be handled more by other kinds of transportation. So that's the reason that we are constantly working this and updating our studies because we know that the people are not interested in having any big new airports build in their area. They want to be convenient to an airport but not near it. And that's a dichotomy we can't overcome.

But we don't face the prospect of of having to sort of say No no more people can fly in a few years you don't think that's a day no we're not going to reach that for a decade or more at least and I don't think really even then. Good thanks very much appreciate it. Good luck to you and your tall slim black the mule theme. Yeah OK.