6 min
Can We Still Do Big Things? The Wake Up
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- Daily News
40 years ago, Boston embarked on an unthinkably ambitious project: Move the elevated highways underground. By the time the project wrapped, the Big Dig became shorthand for over-time, over-budget government boondoggles. But as America's list of necessary big infrastructure projects grows, can the Big Dig teach us about what it takes to do big things? Paris talks to Ian Cross, host of The Big Dig podcast from GBH News.
40 years ago, Boston embarked on an unthinkably ambitious project: Move the elevated highways underground. By the time the project wrapped, the Big Dig became shorthand for over-time, over-budget government boondoggles. But as America's list of necessary big infrastructure projects grows, can the Big Dig teach us about what it takes to do big things? Paris talks to Ian Cross, host of The Big Dig podcast from GBH News.
6 min