If you've ever wondered why it is so difficult to build infrastructure in this country, why these projects take so much time and cost so much money, there's a podcast that can offer some clues. It's ...
Boston, MA — September 13, 2023 — Can America still build big things? It's the central question of The Big Dig, a new podcast announced today from GBH Newsand PRX, examining American infrastructure ...
Boston’s Big Dig is legendary — for its politics, cost overruns and rage-inducing traffic snarls. But most Bostonians don’t remember that the project emerged from an anti-highway movement that was ...
Once upon a time, the city of Boston was one big construction zone — awash in bulldozers, backhoes, and cranes. That would be the Big Dig. For all you newbies to Boston, that’s the mega-project that ...
The dust has settled from the Big Dig tunnel collapse in Boston two years ago, but there are still important lessons for engineers to learn from the fatal tragedy, which was easily avoidable. "The ...
The sad spectacle of the MBTA Green Line extension is enough to make a person doubt Boston’s much-vaunted reputation for achievement. Delivered more than 30 years late and plagued by cost overruns, ...
A lawsuit that claimed tolls on the Mass Pike were being used illegally to pay for the massive Big Dig highway project was dismissed by the state's highest court. State contractors are boring into the ...