Word: tunneling
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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...
...underground tunnel will form a giant ring 53 miles in circumference. Streams of subatomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light will be held on course by huge electromagnets. When one stream of high-speed protons smashes into another stream moving in the opposite direction, the force of the collision will create a host of short-lived particles not seen since the first moments after the Big Bang gave birth to the universe. Physicists are hoping that the appearance of exotic new particles -- higgs bosons, squarks and sleptons -- will open new vistas of inner space for scientists to study...
Governor Michael S. Dukakis told state officials and members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation yesterday that Congress had performed a ``miracle'' in saving the $87.9 billion bill. The bill authorizes federal funding to widen and lower Boston's Central Artery and to dig a third harbor tunnel that would accommodate 40,000 cars daily...
...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...
...added that Locke is "pleased" with the planned tunnel...