The Ephemera Society of America has an overview of the sign work of Vincent Zarrilli, who made hundreds of black-on-yellow stencilled signs protesting what would become the Big Dig, along with the "Dukakis Artery rats" he said would flood the city during construction, and promoting his alternative for a "Bay Bypass" - basically a double-decker bridge across Boston Harbor, from Dorchester to Charlestown. Read more.
By qcoder - 7/26/19 - 11:11 am
A large section of the right lane on Exit 22 off I-90E is blocked because a large elliptical section broke and fell down onto whatever is below it. Don't know: Big Dig busway? T? Hopefully not highway!
Massachusetts State Police are on it.
By adamg - 8/2/18 - 9:27 pm
It seems that, in addition to its ongoing water shortage, Cape Town has a transportation problem that it was planning to solve by constructing a bunch of elevated highways. Now the city has canceled the whole thing, and the architect whose company submitted the winning bid for the work is pretty bitter - bitter enough to write a long, ranty screed about how stupid and shortsighted the city's being and how elevated highways are just so superior to sticking the highways in tunnel. Read more.
By adamg - 10/1/14 - 9:58 am
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports on a MassDOT/BRA meeting to consider how to cover the ramps leading to the tunnel under the Greenway.
Among the most interesting options presented for Parcels 12 and 6 were elevated pedestrian walkways that cover the ramps and provide above ground (~15' high) observation areas. The ramp covers and high decks could be designed to be similar to sections of the popular High Line park in Manhattan.
By adamg - 7/9/14 - 7:38 pm
After seeing a report on Boston Reddit from a motorist who said something fell and almost hit her car, maintenance crews went through the tunnel
By adamg - 7/8/14 - 11:31 pm
UPDATE: State officials say they couldn't find any evidence of anything falling from the ceiling.
Am_Sci reports:
I was driving southbound through the O'Neill tunnel earlier this afternoon, when a long, rectangular, and apparently heavy object fell from the ceiling into the lane in front of me. It was accompanied by a plume of dust that quickly cleared.
By adamg - 9/5/13 - 10:21 am
You know, of course, about I-695 and I-95 in the city - cancelled after residents from Hyde Park to Somerville raised holy hell and the governor canceled the plans and we got the Orange Line instead.
By adamg - 7/13/12 - 4:09 pm
Harm caused to the Big Dig by two concrete-company executives who ordered workers to deliver substandard concrete was nowhere near as bad as prosecutors charged, a federal appeals court said today in upholding a judge sentencing them only to probation a
By adamg - 7/12/12 - 2:30 pm
A day after we learned the alleged final cost of the Big Dig, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled the way the then turnpike authority shifted toll revenues to Big Dig construct
By adamg - 3/25/12 - 1:54 pm
Stand on the Summer Street Bridge and look toward South Boston, and Fort Point Channel looks like a long rectangle, ending in a wall just past the Gillette plant.
By adamg - 8/11/11 - 8:40 am
The Globe reports frozen dirt under a section of the Big Dig is thawing out faster than expected, causing
By adamg - 7/24/11 - 9:21 am
The Globe gets a copy of an engineer's report on continuing water problems in the tunnels, such as a design flaw that's leading t
By adamg - 7/14/11 - 4:02 pm
The Globe reports Jeffrey Mullan will depart as state transportation secretary this fall because he needs to make
By adamg - 4/8/11 - 6:39 am
EMTs get injured worker to ambulance. Photo by BFD.
Boston firefighters spent two hours early this morning getting a state transportation worker out of a shaft connected to the Ted Williams Tunnel.
According to the Boston Fire Department, the worker plunged 20 feet down a shaft into a pool of sludge around 1 a.m.
Using ropes and pulleys, firefighters lifted the worker out after about 2 hours in the hole. He was washed down as part of a decon.
The worker was taken to Mass. General. The department says the firefighters who rescued him were not the same ones who rescued an MBTA worker at the bottom of a shaft last week.
The shaft. Photo by BFD.
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