Planning Boston's Central Artery: Who Decides?

Who will moderate among the dumb ideas being submitted for Boston's Central Artery?

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September 6, 2002, 5:00 AM PDT

"Ideas like that are cheap. Hey, why not turn the Artery into Venetian canals? How about a bullfight arena? Maybe a giant balloon launcher for tourists? The problem isn't dreaming up ideas. The problem is that there's nobody in charge of sifting those ideas and figuring out what will really work, what will really make a better city.Who should be doing that? Here's a suggestion. What we need to oversee the Artery land is a bickering, loving political family, a family whose members sometimes get impatient with one another, but who are sufficiently bonded emotionally so that they keep talking."

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FULL STORY: A family plan for Central Artery

Sunday, September 1, 2002 in The Boston Globe

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