Big Dig
Hub highway burial
The Big Dig was a massive highway construction project in Boston, completed in 2006, that rerouted the city's central artery underground.
Notorious for cost overruns and delays, it became shorthand for infrastructure projects plagued by mismanagement: This renovation is turning into our own Big Dig.
Extremely large-scale undertaking
- constructionProcess of building something
- contractorsHired service providers
- subcontractorsThird parties doing delegated work
- budgetPlan for spending
cost overrun · deadline · delay · management · coordination · oversight · corruption · scandal
Major road for travel
- interstateBetween political regions
- arteryOxygen-rich blood conduit
- overpassBridge spanning a road
- underpassRoad passing below another
ramp · interchange · traffic flow · congestion · commute · roadway · lanes · transit
Failing to engage interest
- excavationAct of unearthing
- subterraneanBeneath earth's surface
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- ventilationCirculation of fresh air
shaft · tube · conduit · passageway · cut-and-cover · trench · ceiling panels · leak
Relating to soil engineering
- structuralRelating to building framework
- civilMinimally polite
- constructionProcess of building something
- designPurposeful creative planning
blueprint · surveying · load-bearing · stress analysis · foundation · retaining walls · rebar · concrete
Northeastern colonial state
- BeantownBoston's food-derived moniker
- I-93New England interstate highway
- Charles RiverMassachusetts urban waterway
- North EndBoston's oldest residential neighborhood
South Boston · Charlestown · Logan Airport · Harbor · I-90
megaproject
Extremely large-scale undertaking
- constructionProcess of building something
- contractorsHired service providers
- subcontractorsThird parties doing delegated work
budget · cost overrun · deadline · delay · management · coordination · oversight · corruption · scandal · investigation
highway
Major road for travel
- interstateBetween political regions
- arteryOxygen-rich blood conduit
- overpassBridge spanning a road
underpass · ramp · interchange · traffic flow · congestion · commute · roadway · lanes · transit · utilities
boring
Failing to engage interest
- excavationAct of unearthing
- subterraneanBeneath earth's surface
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
ventilation · shaft · tube · conduit · passageway · cut-and-cover · trench · ceiling panels · leak · collapse
geotechnical
Relating to soil engineering
- structuralRelating to building framework
- civilMinimally polite
- constructionProcess of building something
design · blueprint · surveying · load-bearing · stress analysis · foundation · retaining walls · rebar · concrete · steel
Massachusetts
Northeastern colonial state
- BeantownBoston's food-derived moniker
- I-93New England interstate highway
- Charles RiverMassachusetts urban waterway
North End · South Boston · Charlestown · Logan Airport · Harbor · I-90
- BostonBeacon Hill, Boston Common, Boston Harbor, Charlestown, Chinatown
- MassachusettsBoston, Cambridge, Cape Cod, Plymouth, Salem
- roadshighway, highways, road, freeway, roads
- megastructuresDyson sphere, space habitat, space elevator, arcologies, arcology
- Massachusetts PoliticsElizabeth Warren, Mitt Romney, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, JFK
- New England TransitT, Green Line, commuter rail, subway, Amtrak