This video has picked up in views 4Q 2023, after WGBH has posted podcasts on the infamous project. I'm glad I had posted this late last year and seeing that people are interested in it.
thanks for sharing this. i have fond memories being a kid driving through boston at night with my old man and seeing all the towering buildings lit up before the big dig. Thanks again
24:48, I will say, he is right about that. As someone living in boston for my 2nd year I couldn't imagine having a massive hwy where all that space is now.
I saved the Sunday Globe Magazine that had a picture of rats on the cover with the caption 'how will I get home" discussing the traffic situation. Since I worked on the North Shore, my solution was to move to Charles River Park - Longfellow Place!
$13 billions spent and we still can enjoy the traffic 😂 my fav is Tobin Bridge, not a part of Big Dig but truly one of the best place to be on weekdays mornings😂 Great job closing that third lane for bus, you go for more Boston Government, close another one just for bicycles!!
It's not about pointing blame, because we all know they had to make incredible compromise's about where they could build this thing. The lesson of the whole story is that you can't just build a tunnel exactly where you want to, and that the tax payers should have been better informed on what the product would entail. Them "finding out" that the tunnel would cost more due to poor soil conditions is inexcusable. These people have little or no hesitance to fleece state budgets, and make you feel guilty for even suggesting accountability. Because YOU'RE not the expert, and they are, so shut up an let us do our job. And if you don't crystalize that moral, it'll just keep happening.
"Accountability" is often pushed to a more powerless and vulernable group and people in power who have actual responsibilities really got away unscathed. Ironically despite the flaws of a decades ol project for 93 in southern NH, they actually did well to get 4 lanes from Manchester to Salem without much of an engineering problem. There is still pockets of widening but they dont have to worry about what happened 40 miles south for sure.
This video has picked up in views 4Q 2023, after WGBH has posted podcasts on the infamous project. I'm glad I had posted this late last year and seeing that people are interested in it.
thanks for sharing this. i have fond memories being a kid driving through boston at night with my old man and seeing all the towering buildings lit up before the big dig. Thanks again
24:48, I will say, he is right about that. As someone living in boston for my 2nd year I couldn't imagine having a massive hwy where all that space is now.
I saved the Sunday Globe Magazine that had a picture of rats on the cover with the caption 'how will I get home" discussing the traffic situation. Since I worked on the North Shore, my solution was to move to Charles River Park - Longfellow Place!
$13 billions spent and we still can enjoy the traffic 😂 my fav is Tobin Bridge, not a part of Big Dig but truly one of the best place to be on weekdays mornings😂 Great job closing that third lane for bus, you go for more Boston Government, close another one just for bicycles!!
It's not about pointing blame, because we all know they had to make incredible compromise's about where they could build this thing.
The lesson of the whole story is that you can't just build a tunnel exactly where you want to, and that the tax payers should have been better informed on what the product would entail. Them "finding out" that the tunnel would cost more due to poor soil conditions is inexcusable.
These people have little or no hesitance to fleece state budgets, and make you feel guilty for even suggesting accountability. Because YOU'RE not the expert, and they are, so shut up an let us do our job. And if you don't crystalize that moral, it'll just keep happening.
"Accountability" is often pushed to a more powerless and vulernable group and people in power who have actual responsibilities really got away unscathed.
Ironically despite the flaws of a decades ol project for 93 in southern NH, they actually did well to get 4 lanes from Manchester to Salem without much of an engineering problem. There is still pockets of widening but they dont have to worry about what happened 40 miles south for sure.
25:54 that’s not true at all lmao