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Nicole Gelinas
America’s most ambitious infrastructure project inspired engineering marvels—and colossal mismanagement.
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Lessons of Boston’s Big Dig
Nicole Gelinas
America’s most ambitious infrastructure project inspired engineering marvels—and colossal mismanagement.
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Search by Issue: Search by Author: Mor e by Ni col e Gel i n a s: New York’s Sandy Scorecard Preaching to the C hoir on Housing What New York C an Learn from Britain’s Rail Fiasco More . . . If y ou l i ked t h i s st or y , y ou m a y a l so be i n t er est ed i n : New York’s Sandy Scorecard Hail C olumbia! A Mighty Wind T h i s st or y wa s ci t ed i n : Boston Herald Pundit Review samaBlog Solomonia The Ethereal Voice On The Road With Jeff Execupundit Hartford Courant Why Homeschool
States, cities, and towns across America
A u t u m n 2007 T a bl e of Con t en t s
After The Fall: Saving Capitalism From Wall Street— and Washington by Nicole Gelinas
must spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually to preserve the nation’s infrastructure—the backbone of its private-sector economy—and yet more to build the next generation of roads, bridges, tunnels, and dams. Spending so much money wisely is daunting. The good news: no matter how complex and expensive any future project is, it’s unlikely to be more so than the Big Dig, Massachusetts’s three-decade-long quest to bury and expand the Central Artery, Boston’s major interstate highway, and carve out a new underwater tunnel to Logan Airport. Conceived in the 1970s and finished, more or less, in 2005, the Big Dig is modern America’s most ambitious urban-infrastructure project, spanning six presidents and seven governors, costing $14.8 billion, and featuring many never-before-done engineering
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