This Day In History: The Big Dig finally completed, Dec. 31, 2007
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
An infrastructure megaproject, Boston’s Big Dig carved out new highway tunnels/routes to ease downtown traffic congestion. The project was greenlit in 1982, but construction didn’t start until 1991. On December 31, 2007, and costing over 14.6 billion dollars, the Dig was finally done. Read/watch more…
Blueprint America and Newshour interviewed the ‘father of the Big Dig’, Frank Salvucci, here.
The PBS Program Great Projects chronicles the project’s evolution.
E2 profiles an architect who built an entire house out of construction debris from the Dig. Watch episode.
post a comment
Please note that the THIRTEEN editorial staff reserves the right to not post comments it deems to be inappropriate and/or malicious in nature, as well as edit comments for length, clarity and fairness. No solicitations or advertisements will be allowed. Users may link to other Web sites relevant to discussion, but most often links to commercial Web sites will not be permitted.
