When Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway officially opened in October 2008, it capped decades of planning, billions of dollars in cost overruns, traffic nightmares and faulty construction known as the Big ...
You've got to hand it to Boston. In 30 short years, it's built a highway that's launched countless corruption scandals, seen record cost overruns and even killed someone. The $15 billion Big Dig is ...
The main management consultant and contractor on Boston’s $15 billion Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Big Dig) has agreed to pay more than $407 million to resolve civil and criminal liabilities in ...
A Massachusetts state official announced Wednesday that the total cost of the Big Dig, also known as the Central artery/Tunnel Project, is estimated at $24.3 billion, making it the most expensive ...
If you've ever wondered why it is so difficult to build infrastructure in this country, why these projects take so much time and cost so much money, there's a podcast that can offer some clues. It's ...
The company that supplied epoxy glue used in the part of the highway project where a ceiling collapse killed a driver has agreed to plead guilty to making a false statement. By The Associated Press ...
Read more on the Big Dig materials failure and see appalling aftermath photos and diagrams at Design News' Big Dig coverage page. The company suspected of supplying the substandard concrete used in ...
For nearly a decade, traffic has been zipping through Boston's Big Dig tunnels, the nation's costliest highway project that has also left a gaping financial hole in the state's transportation budget ...
Boston's "Big Dig" is officially complete! Nicole Gelinas, a contributing editor to City Journal, talks about the lessons learned from a highway project for the ages. THE KINGSTON TRIO (Group Singer): ...
Prosecutors will drop a manslaughter charge against the only company charged in the fatal Big Dig tunnel collapse after the New York epoxy firm agreed to pay $16 million to settle a civil lawsuit.