Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begins with a relatively painless walk to one of Harvard's less-known cement monoliths, the Broadway Parking Garage. Painless, except for the constant fear of cars shooting up from the tunnel next to Canaday at rates up to sixty miles-per hour. Why fear these subterranean speeders? Simply put, you have no choice but to jaywalk if you decide to cross anywhere except Quincy Street. If you're as lucky as I am, you get to break the law in front of a completely ambivalent police cruiser. Ambivalent as to whether you're breaking the law, seemingly ambivalent...
Once out of the garage you return to that same tunnel, realizing that to travel north on Massachusetts Avenue you must cross all the lanes to your right. Accelerating frantically to pass the other two lines of traffic entering the tunnel along with you, the adrenalin of speed cases away your concerns for straying pedestrians, especially those you might encounter next to the Hemenway Gym. The semblance of a solo aircraft pilot taking off as you push up the hill onto Massachusetts Avenue quickly disappears as your lungs alert you to the most deadly nemesis known to a Cantabridgian...
...estimated cost of $1.28 billion, $539 million more than the estimated cost of Scheme Z. And last September, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers criticized the environmental impact of that plan's river tunnel...
...reduced river-tunnel plan, estimated to cost $1.13 billion over nine years of construction, shrinks the proposed river tunnel from three to two lanes and reduces its length by more than one third. It would add two loop ramps on the north side of the river and would have a 12-lane bridge...
...river-tunnel alternative, the third plan, consists of two bridges with a total of 14 lanes crossing the Charles River but no river tunnel. It is estimated to cost $995 million and estimated to take 8.5 years to build...