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- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!mv!world!spike
- From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
- Subject: Re: N. and S. Stations being connected?
- In-Reply-To: rnewman@bbn.com's message of 20 Nov 1992 17:35:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <SPIKE.92Nov20181710@world.std.com>
- Sender: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
- Organization: Software Tool & Die
- References: <1992Nov18.130123.2441@merrimack.edu> <9211182318.AA27824@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
- <lgni3vINNknf@news.bbn.com> <1992Nov19.211119.10263@m5.harvard.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:17:10 GMT
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- In article <lgq8esINNgd6@news.bbn.com> rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
- <The "Big Dig" is actually two projects:
- < a) a third harbor tunnel from the end of the Mass. Pike to Logan Airport
- < b) replacing the elevated Central Artery downtown with a tunnel
- [...]
- <The second part is a good idea, but >$1 billion is an expensive
- <price to pay just to remove an esthetic blight in the downtown area;
- <it won't really improve transportation because it's just replacing
- <one highway with another.
-
- Well, the last I knew the depressed central artery was to have
- more lanes and thus more bandwidth. Projection show that the new
- bandwidth will be used up by the time it opens, but it is better than
- nothing.
-
- Now personally I think that if you spent the >$1 billion on public
- transportation you wouldn't need to widen the artery.
-
- ->Spike
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