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A 5 page paper discussing the big-business logistics of the largest public works project ever. Boston's Central Artery, the elevated six-lane highway that runs through town, opened in 1959 and was a marvel that had been planned for growth. Designed to carry 75,000 vehicles daily, it is now one of the most congested highways in the nation carrying 190,000 vehicles each day. The budget for its replacement is $10.8 billion and is scheduled for completion in 2004. Though construction began in 1991, there was no overseeing IT plan implemented until 1996. The project has run more smoothly with the IT system in place, and political posturings connected with the project have largely ended. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSbigDig.doc
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for years. The highway opened in 1959 and was a marvel that had been planned for growth. It was designed to carry 75,000 vehicles daily, allowing more than
enough room for growth of the city. Today, Bostons Central Artery carries the distinction of being one of the most congested highways in the nation with its average of
190,000 vehicles a day. "Traffic crawls for more than 10 hours each day. The accident rate on the deteriorating elevated highway is four times the national average for urban
Interstates" (Anonymous, 1999; p. summary). Projections for the future were that the 10-hour daily traffic jam would increase to 16 hours by 2010.
The Big Dig is the largest public works project ever undertaken, both in scope and in cost. Budgeted at nearly $11 billion, "The project spans 7.5 miles of
highway, 161 lanes miles in all, about half in tunnels. All told, the CA/T will place 3.8 million cubic yards of concrete - the equivalent of 2,350 acres, one foot
thick - and excavate 13 million cubic yards of soil. The larger of the two Charles River bridges, a ten-lane cable-stayed bridge, will be the widest ever built and the
first to use an asymmetrical design" (Anonymous, 1999; p. summary). However, the cost of doing nothing also is great: the estimated annual
cost of the current congestion problems in terms of high numbers of accidents, fuel wasted by idling in traffic and late delivery charges is $500 million. Additional costs arise
from the current highways route. It prohibits easy movement between the downtown, North End and Waterfront districts, with detrimental economic effect to those areas away from downtown.
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