Word: tunnelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan outlines one 10-lane bridge, one elevated loop ramp north of the Charles River and a three-lane tunnel under the river. It would cost $1.28 billion...
...reduce the possible side effects on the Charles, the Mass Highway Authority proposes the Reduced River-Tunnel Option, which would reduce the sub-river tunnel from three to two lanes. But this plan necessitates a 12-lane bridge and two elevated loop ramps. It would cost $1.13 billion...
What Vince Foster seemed to be discovering was the old and tarnished coin of the realm. In a memorable description of Washington, William Manchester (The Death of a President) wrote 30 years ago, describing Lyndon Johnson, that he thought the shortest distance between two points was through a tunnel. Foster found the tunnel, but he did not like the shadowy creatures he found down there...
...like beacons from digital screens inside his cab to the roadbed and back -- right hand on the throttle controlling 11,400 horses, left hand on the three-tone whistle, two longs, a short and a long at every crossing. Past suburban backyards and friendly waves, through the West Point tunnel, rolling from 35 m.p.h. to 50 m.p.h. beneath the hulking mansions of the great rail barons, visionaries and crooks. This is power, this is excitement, this is the guts of America...
More ill-constructed roads greet the driver back in the Square. In order to regain the safe cement of the Broadway Garage, one must turn back up northwards on Massachusetts Avenue and re-enter the tunnel of unbearable noise magnification. The problem is that two other lanes of traffic are also entering the connector from your right, so you must accelerate fast and cross two lanes or end up on your way back to Star...