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4-21-58 <br />6E <br />' answer to your comment #7. <br />If I may be of further assistance to you in this matter, <br />please advise. <br />Very truly yours, <br />/s/ E. J. McCarthy <br />Chief Engineer <br />Commonwealth of Massachusetts <br />Department of Public Works <br />100 Nashua Street, Boston 14 <br />February 27 1957 <br />Mr. Samuel P.Snow, Planning Director <br />Lexington, Mass. <br />Dear Mr. Snow: <br />I am In receipt of your letter of February 25 to Mr. <br />Whitcomb, our Surveys and Locations Engineer, regarding <br />the proposed highway connecting Wood and Bedford Streets <br />in the town of Lexington. <br />I regret our misunderstanding of your two previous <br />eltters, and trust this letter will answer your questions. <br />The road, as proposed, would connect 'wood Street at a <br />point near the Williams rroperty to Bedford Street at a <br />point 7,ere Hinchey Road now enters Bedford Street. The <br />road would be constructed to a width of 24 ft. with two <br />10 ft. paved shoulders for a total of 44 ft. of pavement. <br />The layout would be a controlled access layout providing <br />for entrances from South Street just west of the Bedford <br />Branch of the Railroad, and from :Test View Road and <br />Hinchey Street at some point between the Railroad and <br />Bedford -Street. <br />At Bedford Street some provision would be made for a safe <br />haven for northbound traffic turning left on to the pro- <br />posed road as described above at some point west of the <br />railroad. This would eliminate the present railroad grade <br />crossin? of West View Road. However, this grade crossing <br />would be replaced at the corssing of the new road and the <br />railroad. <br />The Department feels in following the policy of controlled <br />