Comments by "serafina costa" (@serafinacosta7118) on "How Boston's Big Dig survived President Ronald Reagan's 1987 veto" video.

  1. The Haitian couple. God rest her soul. And no, the tunnel did not collapse. A tunnel ceiling concrete plaque suspended by a rusty and under dimensioned fasteners gave in and fell. Soil around the tunnel was clay and a lot of water from humidity seeped throughout various parts of the tunnel. The plaque crushed the car , and spare her husband, on the driver’s seat.
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  2. Rush hour from Logan to downtown before the Ted Williams tunnel ….30-40 minutes for a 5 mile stretch under the Harbor. When the new Southie Tunnel came online, 5 minutes. The old way, you had to wiggle through the busy North End tip by Hanover Street. The only inconvenience The Big Dig brought , during its construction phase , were the nearly daily changes in routes throughout downtown Boston. Suddenly, I am looking with a newly found appreciation towards America’s favorite boogeymen , Mitch O’Connell.
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  3. These projects are slowly getting funding. Medford Green Line extension , extending the Commuter Rail through New Bedford.
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  4.  @jamessimms415  that is an awful thing to say at the expense of someone else’s tragedy.
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  5. Tip O’Neil was probably downing his Sunday doughnut and coffee by his favorite Donut Shope around Belmont, when he uttered this gramatical sacrilege, while tending to his locals . He got it done, while you are pestering about some gramatical nonsense. They Pahk the cash in that Havid Yard. Live with that.
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  6. Never got the Globe to bring Reagan linked to the tunnel. . But again, at the outset, I was barely out of the boat. And not too soon , Teleprompter reading Reagan was on his way out and replaced by comatose Bush ( probably one of our best president in foreign policy , yet a total disaster in domestic affairs ). Regan’s idea of pork barrel was “Star Wars “, that pie-in-the-sky plan to create some aerial shield against missiles that never got off the ground . Such an hypocrite. Bush actually, in fairness, cut the defense budget , which lead to increase in consolidation and M&A s amongst defense contractors. Clinton actually capitalized a lot on the big dig, even through was not his initiative.. I remember him making a few more trips to Boston around then . Construction was at full steam and he campaigned a lot through the region, collecting campaign funds.
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