2007-09-09 12:48:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Boston
Or I mean the big lie!
2007-09-09 12:53:40 · update #1
No. It siphoned off money that would have gone for road improvements and bridge repairs in all of the rest of the state. It built a poor-quality underground copy of the 1960's capacity roads that it claimed to replace so it will be obsolete in a few years. It tied up all the trades people for decades so that home building and home repair prices went through the roof. It is leaking and failing and will never meet its original specifications. It made such a budgetary deficit that the mass pike will be raising tolls statewide (and those may never go down again). They are even talking about adding toll booths to other highways to meet ongoing big dig repair costs.
It is a big negative factor for the whole state.
2007-09-10 07:38:37 · answer #1 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tunnel through 93 south has made the commute easier, but that's about the only benefit. The traffic everywhere else is ridiculous, and it doesn't even make sense with the layout. WHY they would have Storrow Drive/North Station down to one lane on that twisting turning piece of junk is beyond me. I can basically be in park at ANY time during the day, with what should take about 6 minutes. So I think some was planned rather poorly. Also, forget about going anywhere near South Station, or the Aquarium. And the poor people who were injured while working, and that woman who died last summer! Goodness! It's a shame things have gone so poorly, with what could have been a great roadway.
2007-09-10 03:48:36 · answer #2 · answered by ShouldBeWorking 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think so, but I believe they made a mistake by having its entire roof be a linear park ("Rose Fitzgerald Greenway"). It is/will be just a gash discouraging pedestrian crossings. The same thing happened in my second home city - Montréal - with the constuction of the underground 727 autoroute, which is also mostly covered by parks. There is vibrant life to its south (old Montréal) and to its north (Chinatown and Little Burgundy) but is mostly lifeless itself. Although I believe that some of the Big Dig's surface should have been open space at other parts - especially from Washington Street to State Street - should have been connecting streets with 3-5 story housing of matching architecture constructed in order to make the neighborhoods seamless.
2007-09-10 12:04:00 · answer #3 · answered by Hank 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there was no corruption in Mass. it would not be a mistake. However Mass, is about the most politically corrupt states in the USA. Inept friends get the contracts and short cut the jobs. The good people who know how to construct highways live elsewhere than Boston.
2016-05-20 22:08:14 · answer #4 · answered by bettye 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm well let's think about it...how many people died as a result of structural malfunction or falling off the road BEFORE they sunk I-93???
2007-09-09 14:47:30 · answer #5 · answered by J C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're all going to be paying for that fubar piece of crap for years to come. need I say more?
2007-09-09 12:51:57 · answer #6 · answered by Pontius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing but trouble.money wise .politics ..it should have be done years ago ....we the people are paying for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-09-09 12:54:51 · answer #7 · answered by Sal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋