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Facing massive cost overruns and potential safety concerns, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino has urged University President Lawrence H. Summers and MIT President Susan Hockfield to help evaluate the management and finances of the Big Dig??s Interstate 93 tunnel...
State Secretary of Transportation Dan Grabauskas will lead the study, which will likely take input from a bevy of city and state agencies, according to Salvucci—a former Massachusetts transportation secretary best known as the father of the “Big Dig?? and recently hired to advise the University on the transportation that will connect its burgeoning land holdings...
Since Jan. 18, thousands of Boston drivers have taken advantage of the latest blessing afforded them by the gargantuan public works project known as the Big Dig??a tunnel connecting Logan airport to the Massachusetts Turnpike. The three-and-a-half mile tunnel, which runs above an active subway and below Amtrak and commuter rail train lines, is an engineering feat for the history books. After 12 years and $6.5 billion, the tunnel officially completes Interstate Highway 90, which now reaches all the way across the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean...
...step forward in the Big Dig??s ultimate goal of replacing the elevated Central Artery highway with an underground road—beautifying Boston as it makes it safer—is one that we greet with enthusiasm. But the Big Dig is by no means over, and the successful closure of this phase in its plan should not obscure all that remains to be addressed...
This accomplishment also provides an opportunity to remind the Big Dig??s administrators of their promise to replace the elevated Central Artery with green space after the project is finished. As helpful as the Big Dig will be in easing traffic problems, the purpose of rejoining Boston’s waterfront and North End with the financial district should be seen as an equally vital goal, not a side effect...