The Big Dig Bug (Trees And Things)

Iunebrave: Re: The Big Dig Bug

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:36:20 EST

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Ramasoonedith: Re: The Big Dig Bug

Thu, 4 Jan 2007 04:29:53 EST

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eduardo: Re: CD, si!

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:57:30 EST

I think there's a bug in TnT that causes lame private messages to show up in threads...

maml: Re: punx on wheelz

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:39:01 EST

Congrats.

I would have loved to do a Boston Allycat, but I wasn't hooked up into the scene so much when I was there. I don't know how out-of-towners even compete, given the peculiarities of Boston's streets.

Now I have a child, and fear death o

lynnx: punx on wheelz

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:00:57 EST

well, the tour is not really the place to look for bike punks (although today's ride by landis was a thing to behold). you gotta go to the source: bike messengers. and if you st

koos: Re: Who's Lance?

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:18:07 EST

"Look, I'm drafting in the middle of the peleton for three hours!"

And yet, my father-in-law can watch, rapt and excited, every damn night.

AND HE DOESN'T EVEN OWN A BIKE!!!

{ k }

maml: Who's Lance?

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:35:29 EST

Bike's don't have a big name punk icon, but the urban commuter/messenger world is suffused with punk attitude*, and then there's BMX and the whole Downhill/4 cross/Freeride aspect of Mountain biking.

Tony Hawk and Lance Armstrong seem eerily similar to

koos: Re: winter?

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:24:07 EST

Yeah I have some crazy hardcore biking friends in Boston (they did that anti-AIDS ride a bunch before it went bankrupt), so I agree it can be pretty punk (and at the same time... Lance Armstrong/Jan Ullrich vs. Tony Hawk/Bam Margera?!? You know who I'm pic

maml: erg, wrong button.

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:36:53 EST

This was supposed to be a reply to koos.

MayorBob: The Blue Route isn't called that ...

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:03:42 EST

... because that was the color used to denote roads under construction. In fact, when plans for the I-476 Mid-County Expressway were being drawn up, there were several route plans considered. One identified by blue tape on a map was selected ov

maml: winter?

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:47:22 EST

You make valid points, and Providence is a lovely (and much smaller) city. My dad lived out on Branch Ave. for a while, which is kind of the ass end of Providence and it was still pretty nice.

Maybe a skateboard doesn't work in the winter, but a m

gaspacho: Re: Manslaughter charges

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:36:31 EST

Just some juicy background info for non-MA Treelings:

AG Tom Reilly is currently one of the Dems running for MA Gov in Nov, and is sure to leverage this as much as possible. Especially since ex-Clinton staffer/Ameriquest Boardmember Deval Patrick

koos: My solution/final thoughts on the T...

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:26:02 EST

I bought a skateboard (hybrid length) instead of a bike. It was a little easier to fit in my locker than a Schwinn. Plus, a skateboard is "cool" and "punk rock" (I had always wanted to learn how to use one, and it was really my last cha

maml: You should have got a bike...

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:50:41 EST

Bike is definitely the best way around Boston. A decent bike will run you like $350, way less than the insurance bill for a car in Boston.

The 57 bus up and down Comm Ave beats the green line by about 10 minutes, and then you can switch at Kenmore

fader: The cab-T gap

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:17:21 EST

We tried a cab once and it cost $30

Fortunately, the T is planning yet another fare hike. They'll close this price gap soon, I'm sure.

gerrymander: CD, si!

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:34:38 EST

koos, I most certainly do want that CD. And now that my own PC woes are over (stupid faulty motherboard), I can get one to you in return. I'll look for you in chat, and we can trade mailing info there.

Side note to Ozymandias: I should have the CD I pro

profwhat: Federal dollars

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:09:58 EST

This local project should never have received federal dollars. The big dig might, technically speaking, be part of an interstate highway, but come on: it is 3.5 miles long, and runs from one part of Massachusetts to another part of Massachusetts. &nb

koos: Damn!

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:03:11 EST

Obviously, I should have been more specific. I MEANT "crossing the river not at the downtown junction".

Sure, if you live in Alewife/Somerville/Cambridge you can head downtown real fast (I used to love my Alewife to South Station commute, even pre-iPod)

koos: BigDigBodyCount.net

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:12:33 EST

AWE INSPIRING.

{ k }

PS:: you still want that CD?

humorlesscretin: BigDigBodyCount.net

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:40:18 EST

If you do it, don't forget the "stickers" with realtime update counters... you never know when another 12 ton concrete ceiling will fall on someone, and your legions of fans will want to know immediately. I'd put one in my LJ info.

thefadd: Philadelphia Did That

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:47:51 EST

Philadelphians will easily recall the great infamy that was construction of "The Blue Route" (I-476 in South Eastern PA, the expressway between I-95 and I-276/the PA Turnpike). I don't think we even need to recall it -- I think it's embedded in our frontal

Shadarr: One solution

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:20:02 EST

One thing I wish more public projects would do is put the burden of cost overruns on the contractor, not the city. Otherwise the contractor has no incentive to come in under budget, and every incentive to bid far lower than the real projected cost an

maml: Yeah really

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:14:48 EST

Going South on the Redline is the fastest trip on the T. On my bike I could get around downtown, and the north and West suburbs faster than the T most of the time. In fact, at rush hour the bike was faster than driving. But the redline in

gerrymander: "You had one bloody job to do!"

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:10:51 EST

koos, relax. I was just riffing on David's digression. Woefully inaccurate statistics I'll cop to -- but that won't stop my weird sense of humor from considering setting up BigDigBodyCount.net.

marduk: Red line in the house!

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:04:47 EST

if you're going North-South in Boston, forget about the T

???

fader: Manslaughter charges

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:52:45 EST

That's been kicked around a lot in the press for the past few days:

"Attorney General Tom Reilly..

Petronius: The Bold and the Timid

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:51:19 EST

The Big Dig has been controversial for years because of its titanic cost overruns and the dificulty of its construction. However, I wonder if all that trouble is adding to the horror of the recent accident.

But Boston just has the unbeatable duo of horrible roads (now with more killing!) and horrible dri

koos: gerry...

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:29:58 EST

it appears to me that you trying to say that only one American dies every two point five months in the "iraqacle" (Iraq debacle... what? I can't make up words, too?).

'Cause that is factually inaccurate. And sad

thefadd: I Wanna Debate This Poll

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:01:47 EST

I'm sorry but New York far and away has the worst traffic. You just don't notice it as much because being in a car is less necessary. I grew up in Philadelphia, have lived in LA six years and drove a lot in DC and New York. I'll admit that what limitted dr

maml: Cost over runs! Inferior work! No way...

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:55:36 EST

The Big Dig wasn't such a bad idea. In fact, it was basically a great idea. But big public works projects attract the worst kind of corruption. From every worker knowing that going slow earns more money than going fast, to the guys at the

gerrymander: 6 of one...

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:39:01 EST

And with a similar cost in American lives, as it turns out.

WMK: Drop Ceiling?....no thanks

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:25:30 EST

"He said a steel "tieback" that had held a 40-foot section of ceiling over eastbound Interstate 90 gave way, letting the concrete slabs loose."

So I have been wondering why would you make a suspended cieling out of long strips of concrete?

koos: having seen it from both sides

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:20:15 EST

Having seen it from both sides (constructed and not constructed), I feel qualified to say the following things about the Big Dig:

I'm glad I don't live in Boston anymore (GO SOX!)
The Big Dig is still better than w

David Flores: Waste, waste, waste...

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:11:52 EST

What a waste of taxpyaer dollars! Do you realize that all this money we've foolishly poured into the U.S. economy could have paid for two and a half months of War in Iraq!

permazorch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:05:39 EST

Bechtel, Bechtel...
Why does that name sound so familiar?