Under the mid-July sun, parents looked on with expressions of joy Saturday as their children, some of whom are cancer survivors, climbed in and operated excavators and boom and scissor lifts in the ...
Forty years ago, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis announced the start of a project that would become known as “The Big Dig,” the most expensive highway project in the nation’s history. (Fun fact ...
The only company charged with manslaughter after a woman died in a Boston tunnel collapse in 2006 has agreed to pay the state and city $16 million in exchange for the charge being dropped. By Abby ...
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 ...
Boston’s Big Dig is legendary — for its politics, cost overruns and rage-inducing traffic snarls. But most Bostonians don’t remember that the project emerged from an anti-highway movement that was ...
A lawsuit that claimed tolls on the Mass Pike were being used illegally to pay for the massive Big Dig highway project was dismissed by the state's highest court. State contractors are boring into the ...