Tunnel vision. (THE CRITICS CONSTRUCTION).(Boston's infrastructure planning)(Critical Essay)

BOSTON'S BIG DIG, OFFICIALLY known as the Central Artery/ Tunnel Project, is a massive, budget-busting effort to re-shape the city's traffic infrastructure by the year 2005--without generating any more gridlock than Boston drivers are already resigned to. The basic idea is to replace the city's eyesore of an elevated highway with a multilane tunnel fit for twenty-first-century flow.

The project also calls for a web of other tunnels, connectors, and bridges, and the reallocation of a considerable amount of public land. Its many engineering achievements--including, for example, four ...

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