Big Dig

The Big Dig is a project that rerouted Interstate 93 through an underground tunnel through the middle of Boston. It costed around 22 billion dollars and took from paper to finished product around thirty years.  Its purpose was to reduce the jumbling of east-west traffic with north-south traffic and when finished was successful in lowering vehicle hours of travel.

Good Town; Bad Town

There are both good locations  and bad locations for people to settle and build up a city.  There are many examples of bad locations for various reasons; New Orleans for its sinking below sea level in the marshlands, Los Angeles for the San Andreas fault and scarce water, and the city of Pompeii in Ancient Greece for being built in the shadow of a volcano.

 It seems that there are more cities built in poor locations than good ones.  One would have better luck building a theoretical planned city in an equally idea place.  This planned city would be built close to water in a zone with minimal flood possibility.  It would be in a temperate climate built away from fault lines and areas prone to severe storms.  The city infrastructure would be planned to have an efficient grid system emanating from a center point and spreading outward with mixed residential, industrial, and commercial areas.  for this city to be perfect it would have an endless renewable power supply which is something we have yet to invent.  This city is not in existence but it could be in the near future with some planing and  further research in alternative energies.