Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dallas: North Central Expressway. This aging artery to the northern suburbs of Richardson and Plano has been overloaded for years. Eight miles of road will double in width to eight lanes; the frightfully short merge lanes will be lengthened. Price: $109 million. Federal share: $40 million...
Boston: Central Artery/Harbor Tunnel. The I-93 north-south expressway and the two tunnels that connect downtown to Logan International Airport are congested eight hours a day. Massive infusions of money into the mass-transit system, boat shuttles and airport helicopter services have failed to reduce traffic. Solution: widen and lower to ground level the now elevated distressway and build a third harbor tunnel. Price: $3.1 billion. Federal share: $2.5 billion...
...pared down--they went for what they could get. They needed the tunnel and they needed the expressway," said Goldman, who described the overall bill as "an eclectic piece of business...
...WERE IN MY Plymouth, on the expressway, passing a red weedfield that was going to be subdivided into a housing tract, when Junior asked to be let out. I pulled onto the berm and stopped. A bad wind was throwing paper and Dixie cups around...
Hearing that an expressway was to pass close by, they bought another house last September and put the old homestead on the market. But they quickly repented. "That is where half my life has been spent," he says, "and where my various pets are buried. Everything kind of spreads out from there." Now the new house is for sale, and he and Merula are comforting themselves with a wry, Guinness-style logic: "We're going to be so old and blind and deaf by the time the road gets there that maybe we won't notice it." Old age seems...