Highway Teardown Tour | 1. New York, NY
What to do with the BQE? It’s a one of a kind highway in desperate need of repair, but no one can agree how to fix it. Guests: Polly Trottenberg, La...
Highway Teardown Tour | Enter Here
Every American city is divided by crumbling old highways. Every city is trying to figure out what to do with them. But even if the problems with these...
BONUS: A note from the team
Just dropping in to share some news about the show, and what's coming next.
The Big Dig | 9. Hearts and Minds
Part 9: It’s been fifty years since the Big Dig was first conceived, thirty years since construction began, more than a dozen years since it was compl...
The Big Dig | 8. I Want Justice for What Happened
Part 8: Just as the project turns the corner towards completion, its entire legacy becomes clouded. The tunnels are leaking, concrete suppliers are be...
The Big Dig | 7. The Turnpike Revolt
Part 7: By the year 2000, the Big Dig has passed through many hands, but in its final years a power struggle spills into public view – over who will d...
The Big Dig | 6. The Up Down Charts
Part 6: As work progresses through the 1990s and the tunnels take shape, the true cost of the Big Dig remains unknown to the public, until a series of...
The Big Dig | 5. Hatchet Man vs. the 800 Pound Gorilla
Part 5: In 1991, the Big Dig is handed off to a new leader – the brash, aggressive, hatchet-toting Jim Kerasiotes – who makes it clear he plans to sha...
The Big Dig | 4. The Double Cross
Part 4: The project faces an unexpected challenge on the home front: resistance from local environmentalists and residents – the very people the Big D...
The Big Dig | 3. All Politics is Local
Part 3: The Big Dig needs federal funding. House Speaker Tip O’Neill is determined to get it; President Ronald Reagan is determined to stop it – setti...