Will The Big Dig Ever Be Finished?

"As the highway elements of the Big Dig near completion this month, we need to recognize that the job is only half done. Yet the state is considering changing course and walking away from the commitment to continuous improvement of affordable transit that was assumed in the Big Dig traffic and environmental projections and promised through four gubernatorial administrations as conditions of the Big Dig construction.

With construction fatigue setting in and Big Dig bashing fashionable, it's worth stopping to ask the basic questions: What if we hadn't done it? What happens if we don't complete the job? What if we'd listened to the critics and professional complainers in the first place?"