The Big Dig
Subtitle: reshaping an American city
By: Peter Vanderwarker
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780316605984
Subjects: Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project (Mass.); Highway engineering
Description: In The Big Dig, we are taken behind the scenes of the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project to discover how traffic in Boston got to be so bad in the first place, and how poor planning led to an elevated highway that divided the city and made traffic worse.
Table of contents: title: Something big is happening in Boston; title: Under the harbor : the Ted Williams tunnel; title: Over a subway and under a railroad; title: Under the city : building the new central artery; title: Out of a tunnel and over the river : the Charles River crossing; title: Conclusion : maintaining and updating.