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user-inactivated · 3249 days ago · link · · parent · post: 10 years later, did the Big Dig deliver? The $15 billion project is a road paved with failures, successes, and what-ifs.
24 billion is essentially nothing in the long run. Of bigger concern is the point they bring up -- last project of a dying breed. 24 billion is a chunk that could perhaps have gone to updating the public transportation system, routing traffic around downtown and generally turning Boston into more of a European city. But they couldn't have known. Anyway, don't try to tell local Austin nuts that big car infrastructure problems are out of vogue. I-35 is racist, east and west must be undivided, etc.