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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...
Since Jan. 18, thousands of Boston drivers have taken advantage of the latest blessing afforded them by the gargantuan public works project known as the Big Dig—a tunnel connecting Logan airport to the Massachusetts Turnpike. The three-and-a-half mile tunnel, which runs above an active subway and below Amtrak and commuter rail train lines, is an engineering feat for the history books. After 12 years and $6.5 billion, the tunnel officially completes Interstate Highway 90, which now reaches all the way across the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean...
...tunnel will undoubtedly provide relief for the city’s perennially congested traffic and be welcomed by countless Harvard students who make the trip between campus and the airport...
...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...
...want to be approached by ever-helpful clerks in the stores - it's considered an intrusion. The company says it is narrowing losses and hitting targets, but analysts say Wal-Mart isn't going anywhere soon. "I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel," says Jürgen Elfers, a retail analyst at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. In Germany, Wal-Mart discovered a surprising weakness: it couldn't export one of its biggest advantages - high-volume logistical know-how. There was trouble synchronizing warehouse data systems, and the Americans say they were surprised by the lack...