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By contrast, the "Big Dig" is actually several major projects replacing or extending portions of two major freeways, Interstates 93 and 90.

“Anyone Who Says There Aren’t Going to Be Cost Overruns Is Fooling Themselves.” « PubliCola 2010

The reason the Big Dig is applicable is that it was a major waterfront tunnel highway project and some of the same people are involved or supporting the project on our waterfront.

Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010

I'm a champion of the Mayor's opposition to Seattle absorbing the state's cost overruns on the big-bore tunnel project, but to compare it to Boston's Big Dig is just wrong.

“Anyone Who Says There Aren’t Going to Be Cost Overruns Is Fooling Themselves.” « PubliCola 2010

Tack on an interminable cab ride on the Boston end of things (especially since the Big Dig is a failure) and you're easily equalling the time it takes to take LimoLiner.

Unsolicited Testimonial: LimoLiner - Anil Dash 2007

BB reader Margaret Maloney says, "Boston's best paper, The Weekly Dig, is properly ashamed of the way our city has reacted to a bunch of LEDs and D batteries."

Boing Boing 2007

A few years after releasing my game Spielberg came up with a game called The Dig, which involved a space shuttle landing on a rogue asteroid with the intention of blowing it up before it collided with Earth.

Found an old Spectrum Adventure I wrote, still online! Bob Lock 2006

A few years after releasing my game Spielberg came up with a game called The Dig, which involved a space shuttle landing on a rogue asteroid with the intention of blowing it up before it collided with Earth.

Archive 2006-07-01 Bob Lock 2006

In my next novel, set in the 2020s, the Big Dig is still going, a kind of permanent revolution in earthworks, a neverending state of traffic emergency.

Boing Boing: March 30, 2003 - April 5, 2003 Archives 2003

The Big Dig is finally finished. posted by nerdlaw. org at

nerdlaw.org 2003

I suspect that when the Big Dig is done and the city has grown back together again, people will be saying "How did we ever live without this?"

Towards a New Urbanism 2000