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Via Universal Hub, here's a link to a webpage from local ABC affiliate WCVB that compares Boston highway traffic before and after the Big Dig. In the picture on the left you can see that most of the major routes into and out of the city were plagued with monumental delays. On the right, the picture shows that traffic problems have not been totally eliminated -- indeed, the web article does a good job of pointing out a few places that the changes from the Big Dig have made things worse -- but that several traditional bottlenecks have been significantly ameliorated, and that the overall impact is positive.
(As long as you don't consider collapsing roof panels, inadequate drainage and ventilation, and potentially catastrophic leaks a problem, that is)
Meanwhile, trying to drive around on the actual streets of central Boston has not improved one iota, and has, in fact, probably gotten worse as a result of the Big Dig's continual process of re-routing the already twisty, narrow and confusing streets of "downtown". We got very lost a couple of weeks ago looking for Locke-Ober. It's one of Boston's traditional old-fashioned restaurants, tucked away on a little alley in between Tremont and Washington Streets, and not even my handy-dandy GPS could navigate us through the labrythine streets. Ain't no tunnel in the world ever going to fix all that.
YOU ATE AT MY CULINARY HERO'S PLACE AND DIDN"T BLG ABOUT IT!!!!! *CAPS INTENDED*
Please tell me everything, cause I haven't been.
I swear I saw a woman walking off the commuter rail at South Station one day when I still worked at Fleet, I swore it was her but I was to shy to even say anything.
I know, ridiculous...I'm a Lydia stalker
Posted by jo [URL] at 02/28/07
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