The Big Dig Opens

Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 5:00am PST by Chris Steins
Transportation, Massachusetts
After 16 years of drafting, spending, and defending, part of the Big Dig opens Sunday, stoking an urban revolution.

"It may not be as revolutionary as the Boston Tea Party or Paul Revere's midnight ride, but when two major sections of Boston's Big Dig - a highway tunnel sunk 120 feet deep and a soaring spider-web bridge - open to traffic on Sunday, it will mark the realization of a big idea: that cars should be banished from city streets, and pedestrians should reign."

Thanks to Chris Steins

Full Story: Finally, the cars will be buried
Published on Saturday, March 29, 2003 in The Christian Science Monitor

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