City Journal has a very interesting article on the history and the present of Boston's Central Artery project: Lessons of Boston’s Big Dig
I've always looked at the Big Dig as an embarrassing indicator of how Massachusetts has devolved into a third-world nation where you can't do a large public works project without massive waste and corruption and still emerge with a dysfunctional product in the end. The City Journal piece is more sanguine.
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