Talk:Big Dig/Archive 1

message: "Official"??  "The Big Dig" is the official name of the project??  Certainly it is the common colloquial name of the project, and the name used in the Boston Globe, but usually the official name is one that is known only to those who dig out legal documents --- acts of Congress and the like, and is not nearly so poetic. Michael Hardy 19:04 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)
http://www.masspike.com/bigdig/index.html  It appears to be the name MassPike Transit Authority uses, too.  Official?  I doubt it's listed in legal documents, but this is about as official as I would require.  That's just me.
The official name is the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CAT).
The orignial name, now shortended was Central Artery/Third Tunnel Project.15:05, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Removed Panama Canal comparison.  It's rather meaningless unless it they
are in inflation adjusted figures.
Roadrunner 04:30, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

message: O.K., so the last para. of the lead now looks better, but is it more/less/the same in accuracy? Whoever wrote "in '03 dollars" wrote it that way for a reason, and in addition the current phrasing makes it appear that some larger project has superseded the Big Dig.Sfahey 23:40, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: re last edit

message: IWBRNI someone would upload the original CA/T project logo.  The project became well-known in the early days for its (now mostly abandoned) standards of graphic design; the logo and associated blue-and-yellow dust barriers and signage became quite familiar to Bostonians over the decade they were in use.  18.26.0.18 05:24, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo 

message: I've added substantial information on deep background on things like the Inner Belt, the Leverett Connector, Scheme Z, and the community activism that surrounded the project over the years. That said, much of it could stand for considerable enlargement and/or breaking out of this article into separate articles. I've also added a couple of web references (somehow this article doesn't seem complete without the MIT/Rotch Library website linked at least). Might be some POV to clean up, certainly some misdirected data. I hope I haven't made too much hash out of the article. Haikupoet 06:44, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually to be perfectly honest I do think the moratorium was a good idea -- the design of the Master Plan was wrong to begin with, since it didn't take into account the neighborhood disruption it would create (and the environmental issues for parts of it were a little dicey as well) -- the Inner Belt in particular seems to have been very badly thought out, though the Northeast Expressway and Volpe's version of I-90 had some pretty bad issues as well (like gutting Cambridge in the case of Rt 2/3 and stopping several miles short of downtown for no obvious reason in the case of the Western Expressway). Feel free to make any changes you think are appropriate. Essentially what I was trying to get at was that there was a problem that needed solving, the solution on the table was rightly killed, but the problem still existed and had to be taken into account during the planning of the Dig. Haikupoet 01:11, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and tried to maintain the thrust of your work while removing what I perceived as POV. See what you think. --Jnik 20:18, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: some updates for you all to hack at

message: "At the time, the Big Dig was the most expensive single highway project in American history." - Has there been something that has eclipsed the $14.6 billion price tag of this project?! Hbdragon88 07:36, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  At the time?!