Tunnel considered to replace Tobin Bridge

MassDOT has not ruled out replacing the state's largest bridge with a tunnel.
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[@RAdaltonracer]

I don’t think many of the commentators here get it. The Tobin is being damaged faster than we can fix it. It desperately needs a replacement, and a tunnel is both the easiest and most resilient option. “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” doesn’t apply here. It IS broken, it IS being fixed, but it’s still not enough.

Have kids from schools submit designs & solutions to be considered for implementation. We need programs like that to inspire kids. My nephew is 8 & has amazing architectural potential & I want him to submit his bridge or tunnel design to help our society & make him feel he is doing his part.

[@770WT]

Yet the overhaul of the MBTA gets ignored.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

So they are going to spend enormous amounts of money on a second Big Dig with minimal or no provision for public transit. And it will be yet another tunnel in which you have to breathe internal combustion exhaust and tire particles.

[@tylersmith4265]

Tobin bridge is getting old and will need to be replaced at some point in the not too distant future.

[@DSant41828]

Yes. It's an eyesore.

[@patsully2413]

Leave the bridge alone!

[@ayebing]

I mean I doubt a project like this in MA would cost more than 15 Billion dollars. Sounds like a no brainer

[@redsox1935]

I disagree with a tunnel because I love the views you see of the Boston skyline when you drive across the bridge

[@Bobby_T_]

Soon we will have hover cars bro

[@EdwardM-t8p]

Not another big dig! They'd have to do another big dig from City Square Charlestown to Carter Street Chelsea! Just say 'NO' to a Tobin Tunnel. The money would be better spent on the NSRL and quality regional rail!

[@donsimpson3935]

boston loves to spend billions on noting

[@robertknight4672]

Have to see in the footage of the flooding in one of the tunnels in we should keep it above water.

[@springa42]

Whatever they go with will take at least 10 years before they decide and 25 years before a replacement is completed.

[@EdwardM-t8p]

And if it's falling apart faster than it can be fixed then greater Boston will have to do without a Northeast Expressway between Rts. 93 and 16 for awhile.

[@fakedazzleful]

So China can build a bridge in 2 years and you think American can't do a tunnel bridge in less than 5 years?

[@EdwardM-t8p]

​@@fakedazzleful Think? We know!

[@ericnonya3650]

Whats the cost to enter the tunnel"

[@BarbaraCole-z1l]

Just fix it?

[@charlesflaco7976]

Just look at the summer tunnel its always under construction

[@charlesflaco7976]

Grest more traffic in a such congest area

[@quadcorelatte8217]

Rapid transit (ideally rail) should be on this bridge.

[@ralphnotenboom5731]

I am naming it now 1/17/25 the Baby Dig or Little Dig Let's GO.

[@Nothinghere0101]

Big Dig Part 2? (J)

[@McGovern1981]

This should only cost trillions they way they run things....be done by 2050.

[@xanadustudios2586]

Big Dig 2

[@brendanodowd4849]

should at a minimum support pedestrians and cyclists

[@billlu9468]

Leave the Maurice J. Tobin bridge alone, please. If it truly was defective, then it should have been replaced as part of the Big Dig project which saw the Leonard P. Zakim bridge open to vehicles, let alone the Thomas P. O'Neill tunnel a.k.a. Tip O'Neill tunnel replace a long bridge over Boston that is now the Rose Kennedy greenway. Like the saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

[@David-f8e2v]

No just brace it up

[@charlesflaco7976]

If its not broken why phuk with it

It's dilapidated. The concrete support bases are crumbling. It's old.

[@oldmandouche8844]

So is this where healeys transportation bill is going to? Not small towns who have shitty roads? Don't go there diont care.

[@counterfit5]

Username checks out

[@lucinaylisse4636]

The same bridge where Charles Stuart falls to his death