+10000
You can fly through the tunnel in 5 mins...only to sit in traffic for hours because of the congestion north and south of the city because those highways are 1950's antiques.
Yeah it's BS...
The highway plan that was designed in the 1950's with the inner belt and southwest and northeast and northwest expressways should have been built..
commuting to the boston area from the southwest is a nightmare.. The splits where you go from 95 to 93 or 128 in canton was made after they abandoned the plan to go all the way to boston with I-95 thats one of the fine examples of the cluster**** that was created by having only part of the highway system built
The thing that really pisses me off was the small amount of people that would have been effected had the highways been built.. They already leveled the major populated part for the southwest expressway ( now melnea cass boulevard) only about 700 families would have been displaced by the inner belt and maybe a few thousand more effected..
One of the major anti highway expansion people was tip o'neal the former speaker of the house.. He said that he was against breaking up neighborhoods to save somebody 15 min. to drive from new hampshire to providence or something like that..
WOW typical politician way to dance around the facts that this system would have been used mostly by massachusetts residents to get in and out of boston.
To top it off those now "long standing neighborhoods with families that been there for generations" have all moved away to the suburbs.. all that live in the effected areas now are illegal immigrants and other foreigners. So we now have strangled Massachusetts with traffic to keep DA HOOD intact
To avoid forcing these people to move they doomed the boston metro area to bad traffic forever, wasting countless gallons of gas and forcing industry to move out of the area...
BUT YAY we got a pretty bridge in boston and a stupid POS tunnel that is only slightly better than the overhead artery ohh and did I mention the POS leaks
Ohh and we also got the franklin line for the commuter rail... YAY because nothing is better after a long day at work then fighting with a homeless guy on the train because he peed on you.
WOW I love politicians.