$14.6 billion later, Boston's Big Dig wraps up

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | 12/19/2003 | Seth Stern

[philetus]

Isn't there a good way to just drive around Boston?

[aShepard]

....."How long do you think it is before another one comes around? The Congress just cannot help themselves".....

Well at least it's not named the Robert Byrd tunnel!

[TRY ONE]

"Was Teddy looking for a buried case of Scotch?"

Maybe, but it was really Tip O'Neil's folly!

[Calvin Locke]

Never thought Cal could be outspent.

Well, it's like this: Every rinky dink "organization" held up the project for stuff like [neighbor] [ethnicity] [chip on
shoulder] a statue for something that didn't really have anything to do with the neighborhood, Boston, MA, or the US
taxpayer in return for not opposing the project.

Then, there's the shakedown by LEO's for paid details.

Then, no sh*t, if they came across a sh*t hole from pre-1950, they would have to shut down the work until archeologists
could sift through it.

That's in addition to all the expected delays, like weather, graft, and corruption.

[RJL]

Figuring 280 million Americans, every one of us paid $52.14 on this project to improve Boston’s traffic congestion.

[Wumpus Hunter]

"In its place, a 1.5 mile greenspace named in honor of John F. Kennedy's mother, Rose, will sprout."

Hey - They need something for Teddy, too.

Maybe they can leave a dirt road and a bridge.

[sly671]

So did they find Jimmy Hoffa then?

[Maria S]

"Isn't there a good way to just drive around Boston?"


LOL!! That's what I was wondering in November, 2000. I was visiting there, and...trying to avoid the downtown area (and the Big Dig)...took a reeeeeally wrong turn. I literally drove aroundandaroundandaround downtown (at noon, no less!) for about an hour before I finally got back on the right track. What a mess!

[mvpel]

With a tellingly simple ribbon-cutting ceremony, the last underground segment of Boston's Big Dig project opens Friday - completing major construction ...

Six months from now, the Boston Globe will be wailing, "they told us 'mission accomplished six months ago, and they're still working!! They lied!!"

[jwalsh07]

For a case study on government largesse check out real estate prices in metro Boston pre and post big dig.

[breakem]

can we get the same folks out her in calif. Road construction is the only thing that seems to go well, once we decide to build one.

[theDentist]

And the Clinton Impeachment (from very beginning to end) cost us all about $0.06 each.