Word: dig
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After nearly a full year of negotiations, Harvard has given up its fight to dig a tunnel beneath a city street, telling neighbors in a letter that the city’s demands put a ten-million dollar price tag on a “project assessed at less than $280,000” and were not “within reason...
...regrettable that the Big Dig has dragged on so far beyond its original budget and schedule, and it is up to Governor Romney to make sure that the huge work ahead does not fall any farther behind. Furthermore, Romney must not let this tunnel fall by the wayside as the Dig continues. He must find and implement a system to raise revenue for the upkeep and maintenance of the tunnel. Without such a system, the roadway will fall into disrepair, and the admirable benefits of the tunnel will disappear...
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...
...long as these considerations remain at the forefront of planners’ minds, the Big Dig can only help Boston. Harvard students who saved a few minutes of travel time returning from intersession can be thankful to the Massachusetts politicians and the legions of construction workers who are finally beginning to finish digging...
...Turnpike’s decision to auction off the heavily encumbered land comes in the midst of a $2.2 billion cost overrun on their Central Artery/Tunnel Project, the centerpiece of the city’s Big Dig and the largest highway construction project in American history...