The Big Dig

The Big Dig central trunk tunnel project called Big Dig is said to be the largest, most complex, and most challenging highway project in the history of the United States. This is the culmination of decades of plan and outlook, hoping to reduce traffic jams that have plagued the Boston area since the invention of the car. This project has a major underground road system, a revolutionary diagonal bridge, and many tunnel intersections, each of which is built in the middle of a vibrant city. .

One of the most famous pork barrel projects is Big Dig in Boston, Massachusetts. Big Dig is a project to move through the 5 mile (5.6 km) section of the underground highway system. The ultimate cost is $ 14.6 billion, or more than $ 4 billion per mile. One of the Big Dig tunnels Tip D - Mass was named to promote Big Dig by the federal government during his tenure as a US House Speaker. In the 2008 US presidential election campaign, Alaska's Gravina Island Bridge (also called "Nowhere Bridge") was mentioned as an example of pork's barrel expenditure. The Republican Senator Ted Stevens driven bridge costs $ 398 million and is expected to connect Ketchikan International Airport with 50 residents of the island to Revillagigedo Island and Ketchikan.

There are few people who know about small excavations before Big Dig in Boston. According to federal guidelines, the central artery project allocated approximately $ 4 million for archaeological exploration in the early 1990s. And it may be destroyed by the building, thought to be an abundant region of early history. Finally, four sites were selected. One of them was an asphalt piece covered with an old elevated road, later called Cross Street Guard. Here the archaeologists discovered the secrets of the 17th century and discovered amazing treasures in their secrets. It is known as "the oldest bowling in North America" ​​at the New Commonwealth Museum in Massachusetts.

To find out where this site is related to Boston today please visit Beyond the Big Dig website. Click History at the top of the map and use the Thermometer timeline on the right to confirm the evolution of the Boston peninsula related to the project. The so-called cross street back is under the pink ribbon of the former narrow land connecting the northern end and the current urban area. For Big Dig archeology online exhibitions, please visit the Commonwealth Museum web site.