Boston's Big Dig | Extreme Engineering

[@jergervasi3331]

Traffic during this project was BEYOND insane. I'd just shut off my car and read a book for 20 minutes or so. At the worst spot on 93, they had a big billboard: "Rome wasn't built in a day. If it was, we would have hired their contractor."

[@vibrationalcurrency]

😂😂

[@ZackScriven]

🤣

[@bobbybeef69]

I remembered that billboard! I was a kid when it was being built and my mom and I would laugh about it every time she dragged me to her office in the morning

[@KDill29]

I remember watching this episode in wood shop class, when we had a substitute teacher.

[@IamNiggler]

#neverhappened

[@butchwilliams]

I loved when we had a substitute teacher. I grew up and went to school in a small town, very easygoing. I got several great memories of substitute teachers. 1) Most substitute teachers didn’t give two shits except catching a paycheck. All that was required was that you be 18 and have a diploma or GED and not have any VIOLENT OR SEXUAL FELONIES on your record. We had one substitute teacher that, three years earlier, was in the same gym class we were in. Fast forward three years, he’s 19, with a GED, and a convicted felon for drug charges (remember, no violent or sex crimes). 2. The old substitute teachers (65+ y/o), as long as you didn’t kill them or each other, you could literally do whatever you wanted. Hell, I gotta blowjob in 10th grade history class. 3. We had an old homeless man that was a sub teacher, bring him a chicken biscuit from the gas station up the road and you could leave class any time.

[@stevemcpherson9148]

😂😅

[@jjMcCartan9686]

Me too watched it in school.

[@IamNiggler]

@@jjMcCartan9686 never happened

[@lesliefortier6595]

I was a full-time Boston cabdriver from 1974 to 2004. I lived and worked through this immense project. It was of vital necessity and impactful to the future of not only Boston but all of the Northeast.

[@207522]

I remember spending hours sitting in Big Dig construction traffic and hearing people complain about the cost and I think it's a perfect example of how sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. Boston traffic is still a nightmare but it's much better than it would be now if it weren't for the cost and time investment in the Big Dig years ago.

[@skyerichatds8850]

This is an amazing feat. I have always wanted to visit bawston (Boston) bucket list item for sure. I have been looking through some of the awesome artifacts they found all throughout the dick. I downloaded the PDF and apparently they put some of the items in a museum next to the JFK library. It would be really cool to have a friend that lives in Boston to send me pictures and info for the future visit. Maybe this year we will go.

[@skyerichatds8850]

Big dig* lol spell check

[@world_still_spins]

​@@skyerichatds8850 Yes. Boston had a Big Dig, and turned it into a long tunnel with a perfect mowed lawn around the top. Though Boston is still packed with frequent car jams, and needs to clean the tunnel more often. Why would Big Boston need spell checked.😅.

[@leshem4424]

I was a structural engineering student at Northeastern University 1994 to 1999. This was incredible to see in person and I love the workers and their Boston accents.

[@leshem4424]

They very much underestimated the amount of traffic coming in and out of Boston and those tunnels are not big enough although I do think that the tunnel going to the airport does hellp but if you were used to driving above ground and knowing the exit suddenly under the ocean under the building and where to get off the highway it was a nightmare

[@cblizz730]

I can confirm that the traffic is alive and well in Boston.

[@Bobspineable]

Surely it’s better that it’s hidden away

[@Davidgon100]

At least it's out of sight

[@Chris-s2r]

Ditto.

[@mrjeffwithaG]

@@Davidgon100 it isn't. Gridlock starts about 7 miles from the tunnels and extends up to and sometimes beyond the Zakim. Traffic is arguably worse than before the project.

[@Timpon_Dorz]

​@@mrjeffwithaGit doesn't matter when you go to Boston. There's always traffic... Lol

[@hisdness1]

I'm from Boston and I watch about every documentary about the Big Dig. This has got to be the best.

[@rickchumsae7974]

When the project was complete, I recall landing at Logan, picking up the rental car and leaving Boston in my rear view mirror all within a few minutes. What a relief from the old days!

[@madloudnoises]

The big dig's biggest failure was that they didn't add a rail connection between north and south station. The big dig just moved the problem underground.

[@Yourewrongbuddy]

I would argue the biggest failure was all the corruption and stolen money from the tax payers

[@jdillon8360]

If they'd just built the rail tunnel, and electrified all the train lines, the road tunnel might not have even been necessary. Adding lanes never solves traffic.

[@lynskyrd]

motor vehicle registrations in Mass have gone up over 48% since 1990. This project. although was needed- has already past being overwhelmed by the very problem it was supposed to solve. The city DOES indeed look better but 'parking lot' traffic is still a thing here in Beantown. Fantastic engineering though- amazed at all the issues they had to get around.

[@joshuadill7849]

It still sucks traveling here. 4 a.m to 10 a.m its awful and almost unbearable at times and then again from 4 p.m to 6 to 7 p.m. these times are terrible i hate it. But if i work around these times its great and lots of money here. Im from Maine but work in Boston and love it, but i just had to adjust my life and work at the best time to travel, so i work alot later in the day and thats what makes it work for me. The money in boston makes in 10 times better and makes me more excited about work. Boston really is an amazing place to be and work. I love being around all the different nationalities and being able to meet people from everywhere in the world. Boston is a AMAZING. 🎉❤

[@netrade3898]

No need to go to Disney when you've got the 93 tunnel in Boston. Thunder Mountain? Hah! Just drive Storrow Drive. It's the same.

[@TheHaydena76]

Im glad the big dig occurred as a non-local. I have to say though, driving in Boston is still a nightmare coming from a small town.

[@greenleaf9274]

I swear there are some smart ass ppl in this world that don’t receive their flowers.

[@muscleman125]

The highway tunnel system under Boston is wild af. Exit ramps on both sides of the road, some ramps having 2 or 3 individual lanes for specific exits. Twisty tunnels, narrow at some spots, sudden lane merges, and lackluster signage. If you aren't from there it can be kinda intimidating, especially with locals ripping through the tunnels at 80+. I still think even though it didn't really fix the traffic issue, it still greatly improved the city above ground. Boston and the surrounding cities/towns is absolutely stunning and having the interstate hidden opened up even more visually appealing scenery.

[@pbear216]

That's the entirety of Massachusetts, not just Boston. Some of the most dangerously designed roadways in America exist in Massachusetts, and don't even get me started about using the breakdown lanes for travel............

[@jamesthiry9391]

Just went through there last week. It was crazy driving through that tunnel!!

[@johnpartridge7623]

Incredible Engineering on a monumental scale, brilliant documentry thanks for sharing

[@geomodelrailroader]

Big Dig helped for the most part and it also helped their sister city on the other side of the 90 which is in an earthquake zone. By placing the cars underground it removes the congestion from the streets. Yes they went over budget and yes Reagan and Bush tied to veto it twice but it was built. Boston is still trying to manage the traffic but the unsafe elevated highways have been torn down and traffic is moving more smoovely if not at all when rush hour comes.

[@willisapril]

The real sollution at the end of the day is for more people to work from home. Less cars on the road less congestion, cleaner air. With the end of the pandemic these companies should have kept everyone remote instead of all the hybrid work places.

[@gtccold]

they went 10x+ over budget :)

[@lqzy.mp4]

it just moved all that ugly traffic underground

[@willisapril]

@@lqzy.mp4 It also extended the Turnpike to East Boston as well as the Zakim Bridge

[@brucevipond2222]

Who is the sister city? How can it be in earthquake zone and Boston not?

[@thevultrantransituniverse1487]

My favorite Extreme engineering episode!!

[@noah48341]

I remember them working on this as a kid and wondering what they were doing. Can’t say the traffic problem is solved now that I drive, but the north end and the area near the aquarium is very pedestrian friendly and dare I say is even lovely to hang out in. Love to watch the boats come and go without the highway roaring behind me!

[@bobbybeef69]

The city opened up so much. The running route I take from the seaport to the north end wouldnt be possible without the big dig.

[@noah48341]

@@bobbybeef69 I can imagine the run is phenomenal this time of year (maybe less so a month ago lol). I’m totally biased because I live in southern Maine and usually park in town or at Wonderland in Revere. *Dreams of walking to work/fun activities*

[@thomasfranklin7999]

maan i love an old documentary with a commentator that ends a good part with “all was going well… than catastrophe struck and it was terrible” than i’m sucked right in.

[@greyjay9202]

I have a good friend who was a construction supervisor on the big dig. The things he told me, would make your hair stand on end. Guys drunk on the job, substandard concrete, roof sections collapsing, water leaks, way over budget, guys who signed in and then went home for the day, or to a neighborhood tavern until sign off time. Rampant corruption, politicians and unions on the take, suppliers overbilling, you name it. A real cluster---k.

[@giulianoasci]

Yes. My cousin. Was one of them. Construction workers 😮

[@KDill29]

Sounds about right. With just about anything in any field. Not just that.

[@88ights]

​@@KDill29Yup

[@gary6576]

Part of my job is inspecting MassDOT tunnels and some of the cartoons I've found drawn on the walls of the exhaust plenums were really funny... They also had a certain character to them for sure🤫

[@calicoesblue4703]

Amazing job guys. Well Done.

[@edwarddullea6049]

I was born and raised on the North Shore. I’ve been commuting to Boston for 18 years. I used to chauffeur into Boston before that. I have to say, although we still have the worst traffic in the country, I couldn’t imagine Boston today if the central artery was still in place.

[@Sabotage_Labs]

Freezing the ground...that was wicked smaat!!!! 😉

[@salmanskippy]

Amazing. That's definitely an engineering marvel. 🇨🇦

[@skipd9164]

Even before starting video I read comments and cannot believe how stupid people are. I got my license in the 70s and today no matter where I go traffic is massive. As a kid playing touch football or street hockey we would get PO to move or stop playing a couple of times for cars. Today those streets have cars constantly and more parked on street. So if the green monster was always gridlocked then today it would of been a parking lot so when people comment about traffic then they have no idea. I drove the raised 3 lane highway and today doesn't even come close to what the old highway did. This was the first major highway to be buried. It was installed in one of the oldest city's in America. It was also done keeping the highway operating while building the highway underground. Look at all the first time used construction methods while not stopping subway, railroad, vehicle traffic, shipping traffic, and airport operations. It also had some major incidents happen and then repairs. Some construction methods were changed and needed to be designed on the go. The subway and railroad needed no possible ground sinkage. A completely new method was designed and worked by basically turning 200 feet deep by football lengths of ground were frozen. Yes there were typical political associated kickbacks and that was nowhere near what people say but it was there and will always happen because politicians are crooks. The amount of police details were everywhere on the project because cement deliverys came from outside the city and on arrival met tuff standards to be excepted and many were refused but still cost. I still go from the North shore and have never had traffic issues anything like on the old highway unless an accident. The airport tunnel was a game changer. For people that say it took to long or cost to much. I prefer looking at the green spaces and don't miss an ugly highway and raised subway that no longer infront of the old garden

[@Heyu7her3]

I watched one of the WGBH specials where they showed images of the EL train & was 🤯 I lived in Boston for several years & NEVER heard of it!

[@skipd9164]

@@Heyu7her3 around the old Boston garden

[@RedKnight-fn6jr]

The problem is that some uninformed people think bicycles are the answer to everything and yet, fail to see how inefficient and disruptive they are in traffic (including transit) and how disruptive they are to pedestrians. They'd simply replace outdated flyovers with something even more ugly and would be OK shutting half of downtown if they got rid of cars!

[@Problem-attic]

40:10 funny to see those cars at exit 24, that split continues to confuse even 20+ years later!

[@johnsobolewskijr.-tp8sr]

They need to do this underneath the Cross Bronx Expressway in NY from co-op city under the Hudson and into New Jersey the Cross Bronx is a disaster

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

During this they also opened the silver line, moved the green line from above ground north station to its current underground section. And opened the old colony lines.

[@GelMibson-u2y]

New englander here. In 2022, Billions of dollars later, I'm still in parking lot Boston traffic.

[@willisapril]

The real sollution at the end of the day is for more people to work from home. Less cars on the road less congestion, cleaner air. With the end of the pandemic these companies should have kept everyone remote instead of all the hybrid work places.

[@th5841]

@@willisapril The real solution is to live a much more car light life with good alternatives to choose from. In cities like Boston this should be a no brainer.

[@truthfacts5438]

@@willisapril No, it is simply getting rid of cars altogether. The shift toward car-free cities are a necessity

[@scottyb2688]

America used to be rail centric like London an the UK if we could get back to that we be better off 80% of people in the UK travel by rail

[@vintageradio3404]

@@truthfacts5438 Pipedream subshine. I can't think of a major city that has ever done it and other cities are emulating what Boston did. In my home town of Sydney, with a population of 5.3m, a larger version of Boston's big dig is now complete. It is called WestConnex and isn't just one or two tunnels but a network of tunnels and includes the world's largest underground spaghetti junction with three levels. The mainline tunnels are 22km long and five lanes each way at the widest point. As there are still two more road tunnels under construction there are some associated traffic pinchpoints, the more notable being on the Rozelle Interchange, opened just last week - where nine lanes of traffic merge into four - but once the other tunnels are completed, this problem will be solved, as one of the tunnels bypasses this pinchpoint. Sydney is also building a second rail network, just to keep the anti-car brigade happy. So we ultimately have the best of both worlds and people have a choice of how they want to move around. There is no such thing as a car free city and there never will be.

[@richiegillham42069]

Little Rock, Arkansas has a plan to "cap" several blocks of Interstate and create greenspace above

[@tinhinnh]

The narrator’s voice is perfect

[@roberttuss5349]

I worked on a few sites as a carpenter. It was a great time for the construction locals and for the city itself.

[@sunsetpalmsproductions3633]

I can say from experience with the big dig, all that traffic was essentially just directed underground

[@starcrib]

🇺🇲🌿🇺🇲🌿🇺🇲 Comprehensive, accurate, and effective in explaining the gargantuan features that were created, tackled, and executed with mind-boggling cutting-edge engineering. Boston is Fantastical. 🌿🇺🇲🌿🇺🇲🌿

[@grantorino2325]

On the words of Jack Kennedy, "we Americans do these things not because they are easy, but because they are *hard* !" 🚀🌙🇺🇸

[@Thesupermachine2000]

While european nations do them FASTER and EARLIER without MAKING A FUSS

[@ImranKhan-nr3vq]

Reading these comments makes me feel hopeful for the future. God bless!

[@marcproulx7965]

I remember this project and how much of a mess it was!!!! However it is insanely cool!! Imagine the traffic in the city today without it considering how bad traffic is today!!!

[@Kent_617]

It did not help the traffic. But sure did make the city more useable & prettier

[@davidb3271]

It did help the traffic, but the city population has grown substantially so it doesn't feel like it. Without the big dig it would be much worse.

[@Heyu7her3]

​@@davidb3271 esp. with the growth of Seaport

[@paulgilliland2992]

I was in Boston for graduation 2019 and it was like a different city to the one I visited 3 times during the big dig . Now that was pretty extreme even though we had a driver each time . I remember going to Logan on a Friday at rush hour and it was so was so smooth.

[@wadelevan1787]

8:53 massive steel as long as a football field…..and it weighed 15,000lbs 😂😂

[@lynskyrd]

yup - I 'rewound' twice on that one; I'm pretty sure he meant 15,000 TONS... which equals 30 MILLION pounds.

[@swaterman08]

Getting from Downtown to South Boston is still a nightmare. I remember the first couple times and you are at a light, looking at 10 directions you can go, you pick the right tunnel, but then you have seconds to move over to the left to catch the exit. While I was writing this, they showed what I was talking about, lol 40:08 But coming from 93 north is nice, when you don't have insane traffic. its easy to get downtown or to the airport.

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

11:54 you can see the boat that built the silver line tunnels, they used the same merged that they used for I-90 14:26 kinda like that

[@robertgomes7548]

I can confirm that also but there is still alot of traffic in Boston I live 40 minutes away and it still sucks to drive there and its Aug. 10, 2020

[@AdamB12]

I had some family living in Quincy when this was going on. The Ted Williams tunnel was a serious timesaver for them. Trying to fight the traffic on the central artery was a nightmare then.

[@_eighty8]

Boston has to be my favorite city i've visited. So much history and impressive engineering. (not to mention the sports teams)

[@chadadams4851]

I commute to boston daily. Anytime after 1:30pm during the week, it's a parking lot. 5-130 work schedule is the only way!

[@michaelsmiley15]

Those tunnel sections use the same construction method as the bay area rapid transit Trans bay tube

[@Heyu7her3]

The same company got the contract, Beltech

[@jers132]

Tremendous project. Good for Boston. Toronto on the other hand, is building designated bike lanes, to solve the traffic problem 😢

[@paulmackenzie4752]

It's crazy watching this in 2024, since Boston is known for not having any traffic or congestion to think that once upon a time that wasn't the case is wild

[@tiamatxvxianash9202]

I've said it before and can only repeat it again here after viewing this Epic story of the "Big Dig". Man's engineering mind is truly out of this world. Those that cast doubt upon our ability to endure and reach for the stars, vastly underestimate our ever expanding knowledge and future potential. Opinions differ as to whether any extraterrestrial life is out there in the cosmos. Someday into the future, largely due to the latest brilliant engineering minds of our nation's, contact will be made. When it is, whoever or whatever they are, should be offered perhaps some tickets to the Red Sox as appropriate gifts of exchange. When they do come to town, take them on an above and below ground tour of Boston. They will then have no doubt that we are a world that will be able to give them a good run for their money, no matter the level of higher intelligence they appear to possess, especially during the seventh inning stretch when we've shared some mythos of the famed "Green Monster".

[@OhiChicken]

0:31 we just gonna side swipe the taxi and drive away like it didnt happen? 😅😅😅

[@bg24hiyou]

15 billion to fix something in our country compared to sending 100s of billion over seas is a no brainer for me. Let's not lose all common sense completely PLEASE!

[@eugemorin7786]

You don’t understand that All the money is coming back to by weapons

[@Chris-s2r]

Stop sending money to Ukraine = Russia rolling over them = Russia going beyond Ukraine = Russia Vs NATO = YOUR sons and daughters going to Europe. Start thinking big picture.

[@JesusIsReal925]

Still really bad traffic but the surface looks better

[@lurkintomgaming397]

My dad worked on this. Pretty cool stuff

[@stretta]

1:56 LOL, so much enjoying the future of traffic-jam-less Boston.

[@jonathanblair5255]

Imagine, Bechtel ended up paying so much money to the state of Mass for concrete issues that they didn’t make a dime of profit. Nonetheless, it’s still an engineering marvel.

[@michaelfraser5723]

TOO MANY PEOPLE

[@richharris9489]

Exactly 💯

[@ItsBriiiiii]

Traffic BLOWS in Boston, but the neighborhoods look nicer

[@thomaskennefick5056]

When complete, the men that built it vowed never to use it

[@liamsweeney1620]

my dad and uncle both welded on the project and both used it regularly after it was completed.

[@KDill29]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@claytammaro7060]

I work on the big dig, LU 56 pile drivers.

[@frankpitochelli6786]

I think the math of that tunnel piece which was Said to be 15,000 pounds, was supposed to be 15,000 tons..!

[@jakerussell135]

yeah, thats what i would have thought as well. 15000 lbs would break pretty quickly I'm sure

[@davidb3271]

Lol definitely not 15,000 lbs

[@lmargo3501]

I live in Boston. Best money ever spent.

[@fisherman5845]

Yoose guys are wicked smart

[@tunatuna6723]

8:52 "The massive steel hulk was as long as a football field, and weighed 15,000 pounds." I'm sure it did! Was that all?

[@tysonpotter3205]

Haha, I reworded to be sure I heard that. Yeah, I think you’re off there guys! 😂

[@Tuppoo94]

They forgot to put a few more zeros at the end.

[@frankpitochelli6786]

15,000 tons was more like it..!! No way something that big was only the weight of 7 cars.

[@lilyaca_2730]

I'm From Lawrence Massachusetts God bless all of us amen 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇺🇸🇺🇸🇩🇴🇺🇸🇩🇴🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🤝❤️ 0:54 💚💚💚❤️ 0:40

[@skendermakota7244]

Raised in CHICAGO, born in Europe, at college in Boston and years of working full time right by this mess added another non-elective to my studies (which took up to 7 years), which I never could skip was anger self management and patience redefintion.... Though often end up punching the steering wheel on my beater Honda as a result of daily exit closures and parking lot traffic - (which I did, and the horn would not stop blarring, while Big Dig workers all looked over ands laugh as I fiddle with the wheel to make it stop) Half the Boston doing second or third shift was basically always late for work, I worked as a valet parking dude and Big Dig took up most of my uisual parking options so it sucked there for me right away, aside from trraffic. In the end, I went back to Chicago right before they finished, after having spent years of fighting the Big Dig Devil which would oftern send me to Logan then Charlestown, then around MIT, then again back to Baybay, then hope Storrow Drive would open up in right lane for me to squeeze by while being cursed on "Fok Ya fakin caaah" haha as I speed around Common, hop the hill and then fly down to Broad St and Franklin - heart of big Dig.. After the huge controversy overspending the budget (which they knew would happen, Boston is oldskool corrupt and haldf the budget got divided between Irish and Italian companies sticking it to the taxpayer and actually making somewhat of a peace between North and South End underground wars haha)) Upon coming back next year, I realized that those parks and whatever they thought would look so nice, was basically nothing more than an extended crosswalk with ugly trees and that familiar breeze skyscrapers would create in that canyon downtown from North End Atlantic waterfront wide open to Dorchjester even), traffic still a mess but underground, looked cool but very little gained, as they did not really expand the hw, only move underground... all the surrounding connections were not really needed, and very little gained for such a bill.... They shoulkd have invested in modernizing the T adding more lines and stations, trrains, buses etc, cause Boston will NEVER solve this problem, because of its geography - Charles river, Atlantic coast landfill really, and then everything else below, there is no more room for roads, orparking... Chicago on the other hand.. while in the padst boring to my Euro-stalgic city looks, I loved it after, cause 5 times the size, Chitown I get accros in less than 30n mins all strteets perpendicular and crossed by hw's and large avernues, this is how the city should be planned... and never again had to punch my steering wheel, cause Chi trafgfic is moving!

[@Heyu7her3]

THEY DID MODERNIZE THE T & ADD STATIONS DURING THIS PROJECT. THEY HAD TO ELECTRIFY THE TRAIL, WHICH ENABLED THEM TO ADD SPEED RAIL FOR AMTRAK

[@Heyu7her3]

Also, I'm in Chicago & traveling across Chicago is worse

[@TheADzioba]

Boston's got a big dig!

[@eddiecongdontrucking]

That tunnel weighed much more than 15k pounds 😂

[@Spencer-vq7se]

8:52 Its crazy that this single piece of steel was the size of a football field, yet only weighed as much as 4 cars. I think bro mightve butchered that one😂😂😂😂. Ill let it slide though this is a great documentary.

[@dustygerlach7618]

i drove thru that every day on my way to teaching Somerville driving from the Cape. They sold this as a way to decrease the traffic it made it worse...

[@1FatHappyBirthday]

What people don’t understand is the pain we just put the generations to come in. All infrastructure deteriorates with time. To fix the crumbling road under ground will be a nightmare. Water will eventually break through. An earthquake will end it completely.

[@felixpena6129]

Theres something called maintenance constantly being done to prevent that

[@brucevipond2222]

@@felixpena6129You’re theoretically correct. There will come a time when the government will be in dire straits and the temptation will be great to divert a few dollars towards another worthy project. One year of minimal maintenance will doom the Big Dig to failure. The government will squeeze another then another year of minimal maintenance. Pretty soon it’s dilapidated and leaking. Carry that forward to its logical conclusion. Now they’ll tear out the parks to build a “beautiful” above ground interstate to serve the people. Claiming the Big Dig was a mistake to begin with.

[@GritForgefitness]

Also sounds like a them problem 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@copyright-ur1sf]

Boston RARELY has significant earthquakes. The biggest one on record was a 6.0 magnitude one in 1755 on Cape Ann. So that’s not a realistic concern.

[@Davidgon100]

all that tunneling and not 1 subway line added

[@jonp4846]

"It's the Big Pig.... and she's hungry again." -- Howie Carr

[@hitthepost]

Howie's entire reason for being is to complain. Its simply what he does.

[@jonp4846]

@@hitthepost Yup!! lol

[@jfray3725]

What a great project. Must be expensive to live in boston

[@Dark_Knight_USA]

Greetings: As N OTR driver I ran thru there coast 2 coast. Being of the NE I always Njoyed running thru the roots of our country as a 'paid tourist '. I was Nevr afraid 2 go. Nipyied the scenery but glad 2 get away from the congestion. I knew the interstate system seldom needing a map. "Map" I said. This was prior the yuppy millennial 'smart' era of dash dummies and hi-tech gadgets they use now 2 get lost. Prior that in the dinosaur days we had these things called maps. Simple lo-tech that had survived 1000s of years that required a brain and a bit of skill. So much 4 my map. They seemed 2 have buried part if it in Bean town. Thx 4 the share.

[@Mike137dd-v4r]

Amazing engineering feat. Less money spent on wars and more on these amazing projects would be wonderful.

[@LaurenBoston59]

It did help make a great city beautiful but if the T could get its act together it would eliminate a lot of the cars. Commuters just don't trust it, who would? Plus offices have to let people work from home all the time! Even with hybrid the traffic is worse than ever.

[@Heyu7her3]

many WFH are in that traffic not working or not "from home"

[@axelthegamer2470]

Amarecans really refuse to make a propper public transport network and it shows

[@jonthompson8743]

I live in this city. There is about 5 hours a day of heavy heavy traffic. Mostly caused by massachusetts residenents inability to merge. This is caused by, what I like to believe, a high income to ego ratio. I95 and I90 to 495 have upwards of a 30 minute back up every day because of this issue. Disgusting behavior and poorly educated civil engineering. Inside the city, roads make little to no logistical sense. You will go down 1 ways accidently and you will have to swerve to avoid cars and trucks in the middle of the road parked due to poor design. I have spent alot of time in other cities and boston is by far the worst one logistically and demographically.

[@LiveFreeOrDie2A]

I have little to zero sympathy for those who complain about traffic when living or working in a city. I come into Boston for sports games or weekend pub crawls. I expect traffic in and out of the city, it’s brutal, and I’m always glad when I’m free of it after a weekend max. But that’s why I would NEVER live or work in Boston. It just comes with the city when you have tens-hundreds of thousands of people who are packed like sardines in such a small geographic region all trying to move around at the exact same times.

[@brycenichols7532]

Dam god damn impressive

[@NFS305]

And it didn’t fix the traffic issue

[@liftme225]

i worked on this job for crane company out of south boston D. St.

[@theresehopkins1581]

I am so proud that Boston, Massachusetts had more clout to get this built, than Reagan and Bush combined had to veto it!!! ❤😂🎉❤😂🎉❤😂🎉❤😂🎉 Bravo!!!

[@michaelraposa1889]

I sat in it for years

[@eddiecongdontrucking]

Sick!

[@jacklawer6389]

Amazing!!!!

[@JettRink-b8k]

Senator Ted Kennedy made out big time on this deal.

[@lawrencejneuser8801]

The next thing they need to do is, do something about those boneheaded massachusetts drivers.

[@learnerm3120]

This is a big dig in America. In China this would be considered a child's sand castle dig.

[@Pyt3x]

implessive

[@spikeman68]

did nothing to ease the traffic,still a friggin nightmare

[@th5841]

Replace the cars with public transit! Remove the urban highways! Save billions of dollars! Improve the air and people’s health!

[@RedKnight-fn6jr]

And how do you think goods arrive in the shops and warehouses? How does you furniture arrive? How do builders and contractors get about? You surely know how the world works?

[@th5841]

@@RedKnight-fn6jr They probably don't use cars, rather trucks? And the main point: The professional part of our traffic isn't the main volume. It isn't the problem.

[@charlesoneill7993]

End the traffic congestion huh? Well guess what if you don't get on 93 North by 3:30pm your not moving because by 4:00pm from the Medford square Malden exit to the NH boarder it's still a parking lot!!!

[@RennellReed]

Could something like this be done in NYC and the traffic problems there?

[@DeloresKnight-x4k]

Too bad it didn't solve the traffic problem. Plans were obsolete before the project was started. Also, due to budget overruns and fraud MA was impacted by a freeze on future federal allocations for proposed projects.

[@willisapril]

The real sollution at the end of the day is for more people to work from home. Less cars on the road less congestion, cleaner air. Will the end of the pandemic these companies should have kept everyone remote instead of all the hybrid work places.

[@presumedeagle10]

if they actualy built the North south rail connection and expanded public transit to the suburbs it would also help traffic less people going to the city by car = less cars casuing traffic, also i would say the freed up space where the ugly ass highwat was is also a benifit@@willisapril

[@DouglasWillinger]

Why no shoulders? Especially for the non downhill portions.

[@videodude8137]

120 feet is a little less than Miles underground! 😅

[@williammason8566]

A waste of money. Just as many lanes going through tunnel as there were when it was above ground. It took so long to build that there a millions more cars on the road. Nothingg was gained by depressing the road way from above ground to below the surface other than some nice open air parks. But not worth it for the cost.

[@darylb5564]

I just clicked on this video for the comments

[@TheKruner1]

so now to make it worse... youtube logos are floating across the screen while the video is playing....how fucked up is that

[@nowistime8070]

its because the person who posted the video doesn't own it so its a tactic to avoid copy rights or something like that

[@WonderfulWino]

I had a lot of biz dealings from CT to Boston over the years. I always HATED going to Boston. I had high hopes for the big dig. I now refuse to drive to Boston unless I get 4 hours of overtime. I HATE Boston.