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...
The Big Dig | 2. Unholy Alliance
Part 2: In the early 1970s a radical idea took shape: tearing down Boston’s elevated downtown highway, and rebuilding it underground. But making it ha...
The Big Dig | 1. We Were Wrong
Part 1: There is a strange irony behind the Big Dig: the most expensive highway project ever built in America began with a man who hated highways. Thi...