The most expensive highway project ever built in America began with a man who hated highways. An activist and an engineer, Fred Salvucci helped stop a highway from being built through Boston. Then he came up with another idea: tear down an elevated highway through the city and replace it with a tunnel.
The project became known as the Big Dig. It was one of the most notoriously troubled infrastructure projects in American history; yet it delivered on its promise to transform the city of Boston.
This is the first in a nine-part podcast series about the history and politics of Boston's Big Dig. It was created as an audio experience; this presentation includes archival images.

Episode 2:    • How two competing tunnel projects bec...  
Episode 3:    • How Boston's Big Dig survived Preside...  
Episode 4:    • Here's why Boston's beloved Zakim Bri...  
Episode 5:    • It took a feat of engineering and a p...  
Episode 6:    • Here's how billions of dollars in cos...  
Episode 7:    • How a power struggle over a Massachus...  
Episode 8:    • Boston's Big Dig tunnels were nearly ...  
Episode 9:    • The Big Dig transformed Boston, so wh...  

You can find more about The Big Dig podcast at https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the-big...

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