{"id":149,"date":"2018-09-17T04:29:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T04:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinnaclesedan.com\/main\/?p=149"},"modified":"2018-09-17T04:29:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T04:29:10","slug":"remembering-the-big-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinnaclesedan.com\/main\/remembering-the-big-dig\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering The Big Dig"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Boston is known for its history<\/p>\n

Centuries of\u00a0 historic events from The Tea Party , to the ride of Paul Revere,\u00a0 the molasses disaster in the North End to the many great moments in sports history . Our dynasties\u00a0 the Celtics , Redsox .\u00a0 Patriots, and Bruins.\u00a0 One moment we sometimes forget.\u00a0 The largest public works project in the US. The Big Dig.<\/p>\n

Originally slated for completion in 1988 the dig started in 1991 estimated @ 2.8 billion\u00a0 and ended in 2007\u00a0 . Its final cost was estimated at 24.3 billion making it the most expensive highway project in US History. After federal criminal investigation , 700 leaks and one death and subsequent law suit of\u00a0 407 million dollars . The dig reduced\u00a0 traffic times by 62% from 38,200 hrs of travel to in 94-95 to 14,800 hrs in 2004-2005.<\/p>\n

My memories were navigating through the ever changing landscape of\u00a0 Boston Constantly morphing from one ways to two ways and two ways to one ways.\u00a0 As a veteran of Boston’s downtown area i found that my knowledge was of no use to me . I recall driving on surface road one night totally confused\u00a0 to what side of the street\u00a0 i was on .\u00a0 As i meandered\u00a0 along\u00a0 and saw a police vehicle slowly\u00a0 creeping towards me .\u00a0 He stopped my\u00a0 vehicle\u00a0 and approached\u00a0 me. I immediately went into Lawyer mode trying to mount my best defense.<\/p>\n

He threw his hands up and says to me in his perfect Boston accent. ” Im not gonna give you a ticket i dont even know where im going . just get offa this thing ok” I happily complied.\u00a0 \u00a0Other adventures included the hide and seek positioning and repositioning of the entrance to the airport tunnel.\u00a0 That changed practically from day to day . After\u00a0 \u00a0Ten years and\u00a0 the feeling that i was living in a wore torn country .. I endured . Now i walk along the Rose Kennedy park and go over the Leonard P Zakim bridge . Going northbound on 93 is better and getting in and out the airport via the Ted Williams tunnel\u00a0 has improved.\u00a0 ” If it dosen’t kill us it makes us stronger”. With pride i can say ” I Survived the Big Dig”.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Boston is known for its history Centuries of\u00a0 historic events from The Tea Party , to the ride of Paul Revere,\u00a0 the molasses disaster in the North End to the many great moments in sports history . Our dynasties\u00a0 the Celtics , Redsox .\u00a0 Patriots, and Bruins.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,12,31],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boston-history","tag-limo","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinnaclesedan.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinnaclesedan.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinnaclesedan.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinnaclesedan.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinnaclesedan.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinnaclesedan.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinnaclesedan.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinnaclesedan.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinnaclesedan.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}