Repeat three times: "
BIG DIG"
The
Big Dig is the unofficial name of the
Central Artery/Tunnel Project (
CA/T), a megaproject that rerouted the Central Artery (Interstate 93), the chief highway through the heart of Boston, into a
3.5 mile (5.6 km) tunnel under the city. The project also included the construction of the Ted Williams Tunnel (extending Interstate 90 to Logan International Airport), the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River, and the Rose
Kennedy Greenway in the space vacated by the previous I-93 elevated roadway. Initially, the plan was also to include a rail connection between Boston's two major train terminals. The project concluded on December 31, 2007, when the partnership between program manager Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff and the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ended.
The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the U.S. Although the project was estimated in 1985 at $2.8 billion (in 1982 dollars, US$6.0 billion adjusted for inflation as of 2006),over $14.6 billion ($8.08 billion in 1982 dollars) had been spent in federal and state tax dollars as of 2006. A July 17, 2008 article in
The Boston Globe stated, "In all, the project will cost an additional $7 billion in interest, bringing the total to a staggering $22 billion, according to a
Globe review of hundreds of pages of state documents. It will not be paid off until 2038.
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The project spanned 7.8
miles of highway...
Price tag = $2,820,512,820.51 / mile
Can you guess how much "government" single payer health care will run?
How much graft, corruption, and waste?
How much fraud?
God save us from "public servants" who want to do to us this "good"!
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Kennedy's "public service"
