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	Public Roads Magazine
		The Big Dig certainly figures to be good news for the local shellfish population because of the construction of an artificial reef in Boston Harbor's Sculpin Ledge Channel between Spectacle Island and Long Island.
		Big Dig materials are also being used to fill Quincy's Swingles Quarry, a 122-meter-deep (400-foot-deep) abandoned quarry pit that has been a public safety hazard for more than 25 years.
		The Big Dig has used partnering to an unprecedented extent, and although it would be difficult to precisely quantify the benefits of the process, many experts have concluded that because of its scope and complexity, the CA/T Project would have been simply unmanageable without partnering.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/julaug01/bigdig.htm (3302 words)

	Finishing the Big Dig - Boston.com
		The Globe found that at least $1.1b in Big Dig cost overruns are tied to mistakes made by the project's management firm.
		The Big Dig tunnel ceiling that collapsed in July was designed with a smaller margin of safety than other tunnel ceilings around the country, leaving nothing to prevent heavy concrete slabs from falling on a passing car when ceiling bolts fell out, according to a preliminary report by federal investigators obtained by the Globe.
		A key Big Dig ramp linking the westbound Ted Williams Tunnel and Interstate 93 is set to open as soon as next week, unclogging downtown and South Boston streets where thousands of vehicles are detoured, state officials said yesterday.
	www.boston.com /traffic/bigdig (1046 words)

	The Seattle Times: Opinion: It's big, and I dig it
		The Big Dig is a throwback to a time when Americans cared about cities, and their government tried to achieve big things that didn't require the invasion of other countries.
		The Big Dig, in essence, is a bipartisan effort to undo some of the damage of urban renewal.
		It's worth asking whether the Big Dig's remarkable streak of overruns, indictments and construction fiascos — the most symbolic was probably the mysterious odor that forced toll collectors to wear gas masks for a while — was inevitable for such a gigantic government undertaking.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/opinion/2003204037_bigdig17.html (987 words)

	Geotimes - October 2002 - Big Dig
		The “Big Dig” in Boston, Mass., is one of the most challenging and complex heavy construction projects ever undertaken.
		In a league by itself for magnitude, the Big Dig consists of almost 168 total lane-miles of highway and ramp access, about half of that in tunnels.
		Building the Big Dig means working in tight spaces that have low headroom and are close to fragile, early 19th century masonry buildings.
	www.geotimes.org /oct02/feature_bigdig.html (2772 words)

	"The Big Dig -- America's Greatest Highway Robbery"
		The Big Dig – America’s Greatest Highway Robbery began as a straight report of the shenanigans, deals, hustles, boondoggles and cons of the $15 billion dollar highway tunnel construction project through Boston.
		The Big Dig involved building vehicular tunnels beneath the John Fitzgerald Expressway that slashed through the heart of Boston; the new Ted Williams tunnel under Boston Harbor out to Logan International Airport; and the ugliest, clumsiest stayed cable bridge ever built, a bridge that easily-conned Bostonians actually believe is a work of art.
		Playing cheerleaders to the Big Dig were tame Boston journalists, who naively, uncritically and respectfully echoed the publicity fed them by the Big Dig honchos and flacks.
	www.bigdighighwayrobbery.com (976 words)

	Road Traffic Technology - Big Dig / Central Artery / Tunnel Project, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
		The Big Dig has proved to be one of the most technically-challenging infrastructure developments ever undertaken in the USA and has consisted of two major projects:
		It was the first major target of the Big Dig to be completed, opening to commercial traffic in December 1995.
		The Big Dig in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, is a massive road infrastructure project, undertaken to improve the flow of traffic and alleviate chronic congestion across Boston.
	www.roadtraffic-technology.com /projects/big_dig (1615 words)

	Big Dig Problems - Tunnel Collapse - Leaks - Cost Overruns - Boston Globe - Boston.com
		With a Big Dig flaw now responsible for a death, state officials rushed to contain an unprecedented crisis of public confidence in the project.
		Engineers investigating the cause of the massive Big Dig tunnel leak discovered the project is riddled with hundreds of fissures pouring millions of gallons of water into the $14.6 billion tunnel system.
		Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff's decision to use a pair of massive slurry walls as a lone barrier in the Big Dig project may have led to the hundreds of cracks in the tunnel walls.
	www.boston.com /news/specials/big_dig_problems (970 words)

	Massachusetts Inspector General's Office Executive Summary: A History of Central Artery/Tunnel Project Finances 1994 - ...
		In October 2000, Big Dig officials announced a revised estimate for the overrun of $2.5 billion.
		Big Dig officials continue to represent that they did not begin to sense budget problems until late 1999 and did not verify the problem until after a so-called bottom-to-top review that concluded in early 2000.
		Big Dig officials have stated publicly that the discovery of the overrun in late 1999 resulted from a bottom-to-top review of costs and they were as shocked as the public by the discovery of a significant cost overrun.
	www.mass.gov /ig/publ/cat01ex.htm (5058 words)

	Massachusetts State Auditor's Office
		An OSA review of the Big Dig's waterproofing practices for underground structures revealed that the surface preparation, installation and contractor quality control activities were inadequate, adding at least $10 million to the project costs.
		The OSA reported that it urged the Big Dig to seek reimbursement from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) for $6.9 million in state highway funds that were improperly diverted to the project design of a rail link between Boston's North and South Stations that may never be built.
		The OSA reported that the Big Dig, after initially resisting recommendations by its office and federal officials, has agreed to use $172 million in unnecessary insurance premiums to offset current and future workers' compensation payments and to pay for other project costs.
	www.mass.gov /sao/bigdig.htm (1477 words)

	What is the Big Dig?
		Boston's Big Dig is the most complex and expensive highway project ever undertaken in the United States.
		When it is completed, the Big Dig (officially known as the Central Artery/Tunnel Project) will reconnect downtown Boston with its waterfront neighborhoods and the historic North End.
		The original elevated six-lane highway, known as the Central Artery, was built in the 1950s as a state highway that ran through the center of downtown Boston.
	www.history.com /exhibits/bigdig/what.html (437 words)

	Boston Digs The Big Dig
		The Big Dig, officially known as the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, is the largest and most complex highway job in U.S. history and - according to its Web site, www.bigdig.com - larger in cost and scope than the Panama Canal or the Alaska Pipeline.
		SCS has run with the Big Dig and other projects such as the FleetCenter, which replaced historic but crumbling Boston Garden as home of the basketball Celtics and hockey Bruins, and various road and bridge projects.
		Some of the Big Dig projects are on a very large scale, and it takes a company with the resources and buying power of NES to participate.
	rermag.com /mag/equipment_boston_digs_big (1994 words)

	CNN.com - Family claims cost-cutting led to Big Dig death - Aug 30, 2006
		It accuses the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and several contractors of negligence or recklessness in installing unsafe and defective bolts, and with using defective concrete during the Big Dig project.
		"Big Dig" is the nickname for the Central Artery/Tunnel project, which reroutes the once-elevated Interstate 93 beneath the city.
		On August 8, Massachusetts reopened an entrance to the Big Dig tunnel that was closed after Del Valle was killed.
	www.cnn.com /2006/LAW/08/30/bigdig.suit/index.html (466 words)

	Inhabitat » BIG DIG HOUSE
		Constructed with over 600,000lbs of recycled materials, this is the house that Boston’s Big Dig built — or more precisely, a house that engineer, Paul Pedini, built with the design expertise of John Hong from Single Speed Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		The Big Dig house is akin to a prefab system, made from a kit of precomposed parts.
		Looking at the Big Dig house, you’d hardly guess it emerged from the rubble of an old freeway, but the gorgeous final product is a shining example of how to turn gravel into gold.
	inhabitat.com /blog/2006/04/11/big-dig-house (366 words)

	pogo.org Big Dig Resource Page 1995 to Present Project On Government Oversight
		When the Big Dig sprung a massive leak almost two years ago, it was a warning.
		Big Dig tragedy Could Stain Bechtel’s Name; Delays, cost overruns, leaks and now a death in Boston puts spotlight on S.F. construction giant – and some of its other mammoth projects.
		Reeling from growing outrage over the deadly tunnel disaster, the Big Dig has thrown a shroud of secrecy over previously public inspection reports and other documents that could show who is to blame for the tragedy....
	pogo.org /p/contracts/BigDig.html (1419 words)

	USATODAY.com - Big Dig's hole getting even deeper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Big Dig, the costliest highway project in U.S. history, is a series of tunnels and spans designed largely to handle traffic that once rumbled through town on an ugly, rickety, chronically jammed elevated highway that walled off the waterfront.
		When the Big Dig was proposed in the 1980s, federal interstate system funds paid for up to 90% of highway construction.
		In the Big Dig, mitigation meant paying for everything from mufflers on jackhammers to fall foliage tours for neighborhood residents and $450 million for temporary streets.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-11-17-big-dig-usat_x.htm (1177 words)

	Big Dig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Initially, the Big Dig included a rail connection between Boston's two major train terminals - North Station and South Station - North-South Rail Link.
		The Big Dig was featured in the first season of the U.S. television program Extreme Engineering.
		In their second terms as governor and secretary of transportation, respectively, Michael Dukakis and Fred Salvucci, came up with the strategy of tying the two projects together—thereby combining the project that the business community supported with the project that they and the City of Boston supported.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Dig (2574 words)

	Amazon.com: The Big Dig: A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery: Books: Linda Barnes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Using Boston's "Big Dig" as her novel's primary setting, Linda Barnes creates a complex but intriguing mystery in which her heroine, Carlotta Carlyle, a six-foot, red-haired private eye, goes undercover as a secretary on the Big Dig construction site.
		Fun to read, with a story that packs a lot of wild action, The Big Dig is a quick-paced mystery that also fills in more of Carlotta Carlyle's personal background and further develops her character.
		After you finish enjoying Big Dig (which is slowly drawing to an end now that the tunnels are open for traffic), I suggest that take a copy with you the next time you are in Boston and imagine the scenes taking place while the main construction was going on.
	www.amazon.com /Big-Dig-Carlotta-Carlyle-Mystery/dp/0312282702 (2450 words)

	July 2001 Focus - Big Lessons from the Big Dig
		The Central Artery/Tunnel Project in Boston, Massachusetts, better known as the Big Dig, is one of the Nation's largest and most complex highway projects.
		Instead of digging a tunnel, hydraulic jacks were used to push tunnel boxes up to 380 feet long under the railroad tracks.
		Information on the Big Dig's use of innovative technologies can also be found on the Web at http://bigdig.com.
	www.tfhrc.gov /focus/july01/bigdig.htm (564 words)

	Big Dig Collapse Might Not Bring Charges, AP Interview: Next Mass. AG Says Fatal Big Dig Collapse Might Be Too Complex ...
		Big Dig Collapse Might Not Bring Charges, AP Interview: Next Mass.
		But his replacement, Martha Coakley, told The Associated Press it could be difficult to bring criminal charges in a case that involves multiple corporations involved in the design, construction and oversight of the $14.6 billion Big Dig, the most expensive highway project in U.S. history.
		The attorney general's office last month sued a dozen Big Dig contractors, accusing them of negligence in the ceiling collapse.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/12/21/ap/national/mainD8M5DTV00.shtml (410 words)

	Big Dig Scorecard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		You're not going to believe this, but the Big Dig work might not be done on time.
		So I'll just briefly say that there's been an awful lot of reporting about Reilly lately, and very little connecting him to the failure of oversight on the Big Dig, which he was a key player in for years.
		The panels in the other lanes were installed while the Big Dig managers sat around debating what to do about the loose bolts they had found in the HOV lane.
	thephoenix.com /bigdig (1418 words)

	Amazon.com: The Big Dig: Reshaping an American City: Books: Peter Vanderwarker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Digging: The Workers Of Boston's Big Dig by Frederick Salvucci
		Gr 5-8-The "Big Dig" is the largest and most complex (and some might add, disruptive) U.S. transportation reconstruction project to date.
		Now, thanks to the Big Dig, the country's largest public construction project, the city is stitching itself back together.
	www.amazon.com /Big-Dig-Reshaping-American-City/dp/0316605980 (1136 words)

	Black hole of Boston: Boston's `Big Dig' is a wonder of engineering and construction, but even more astounding is the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		With a corruption-fighting Republican governor about to take office, Big Dig and government officials responsible for auditing the project are in bunker mode, with their propaganda machine on highest alert.
		But INSIGHT has learned the eventual cost of the Big Dig is likely to be 500 percent higher than the $2.56 billion estimate that received federal approval in 1985.
		Boston's Big Dig is a road and renewal project designed to replace an elevated highway that runs through the heart of the historic old city founded in 1630, and connecting its north and south shores and Logan International Airport across Boston Harbor.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_42_18/ai_95150321 (939 words)

	cbs4boston.com - Family Of Woman Killed In Big Dig Wants Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Angel Del Valle and his wife's oldest daughter, Raquel Ibarra Mora, 23, filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which runs the Big Dig, and nine companies associated with the design and construction of the tunnel where she died.
		The Big Dig, the most expensive highway project in U.S. history, buried the old elevated Central Artery with a series of tunnels, ramps and bridges.
		In addition to the Turnpike Authority, which oversees the Big Dig project, defendants named in the lawsuit include: Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the project manager; Modern Continental Construction Co., the company that constructed the I-90 connector ceiling; and Aggregate Industries, the project's largest concrete supplier.
	cbs4boston.com /topstories/local_story_242073142.html (960 words)

	CUMBERLAND TRAIL BIG DIG SOUTH
		The Big Dig South-2006 is a 6-week trail & bridge building program and is combined with environmental education, history, culture, and musical sessions.
		The Big Dig South - 2006 is a 6-week program of trail building (May 21 - June 30) combined with environmental education, history, culture, and musical sessions, which will take place in the Rock, Possum, and Soddy gorges of Hamilton County, near Soddy Daisy, TN.
		Big Dig volunteers are treated to live mountain music performances by community musicians.
	www.cumberlandtrail.org /bigdig.html (2623 words)

	Big Dig tragedy could stain Bechtel's name / Delays, cost overruns, leaks and now a death in Boston puts spotlight on ...
		If the issues swirling around the Big Dig, as well as its other major public works, aren't resolved to the government's satisfaction, it could eventually harm Bechtel's future business.
		The Big Dig has been, for both the company and the community, a persistent headache.
		Originally expected to cost $2.6 billion, the Big Dig grew in complexity and cost over the course of two decades of discussion, design and construction.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/19/BUGEHK1AKO1.DTL (1659 words)

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