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BOSTON BIG DIG I GBH News: The Big Dig began with activists who hated highways Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ9wEUKs4U4 Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess | |||||||||
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The Big Dig began with activists who hated highways
GBH News
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Sep 27, 2023
The Big Dig: The story of America's most expensive road
The most expensive highway project ever built in America began with a man who hated highways. An activist and an engineer, Fred Salvucci helped stop a highway from being built through Boston. Then he came up with another idea: tear down an elevated highway through the city and replace it with a tunnel.
The project became known as the Big Dig. It was one of the most notoriously troubled infrastructure projects in American History; yet it delivered on its promise to transform the city of Boston.
This is the first in a nine-part podcast series about the history and politics of Boston's Big Dig. It was created as an audio experience; this presentation includes archival images.
Episode 2:
• How two competing tunnel projects bec...
Episode 3:
• How Boston's Big Dig survived Preside...
Episode 4:
• Here's why Boston's beloved Zakim Bri...
Episode 5:
• It took a feat of engineering and a p...
Episode 6:
• Here's how billions of dollars in cos...
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The Big Dig: The story of America's most expensive road
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