For real? I never realized that. I'm in RI so next time I'm up there I'll look out for that

What about white titles? Red white and blue.anyone?

@@Bamamarama Red= sewer line

I thought you just had to look for the next leak?

@@MrFister84 gas leak, water leak.

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Yep!

Go to the Museum of Science and you can see(at least they used to have the Big Dig exhibit) the original promotional video that portrayed what an elevated highway would look like. It was a total dream. It looked like the Jetson's flying cars except on a track with no buildings in sight, as though the highway was going to be 1,000 ft in the sky! Instead, it was barely 30ft. As a punk kid, I'd be standing near Quincy marketplace, throwing fruit up onto the Expressway.

Thank you for sharing this! Really opens my eyes to how important this was.

🚗🏞️🏙️🌆🌉📡 Thank you very much for writing that. Sharing your thoughts with us. It was beautiful to read and we'll written. I loved this video. And as I am a story writer, and avidly amazed and Interested in how construct interacts with cities and what not, plus I love tunnels and bridges and stuff like that, this was amazing. The things that can be wrought from blueprints, the mind, and construction weaponry is amazing. Cheers and be blessed my friend. 🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆

I remember walking down by the North End the day after traffic was diverted underground. The quiet of no longer having a highway RIGHT THERE was stunning. As much of a pain as it was to live with, I think it was the right thing to do.

I grew up in Boston, but left at the time the Big Dig design was started. My earliest memories are of really minimal traffic and practically empty roads (late 1950s, early 60s), but by the time I went to college (early 70s, but still Boston area), the traffic was nuts. But visiting Boston occasionally nowadays, Rian's exactly right: the Rose Kennedy Greenway is truly wonderful. I wish I could move back.

Love this positivity. Spectacle island does look like a penis though haha

Lol.....

@@joeyabb1965 what's so funny?

But they did this Project without linking Boston South with Boston North train Stations, making your rail Network slowed and less attractive. Total disaster.

​@@kyletopfer7818Oh no, I have to get off the train and walk 20 feet onto another train. How horrific. The humanity 🙄

@@OldManJenkins23 well firstly your regional and Rapid Transit trains arent particularly accessible, not sure they meet the modern standard. Secondly, because trains have to terminate in both sides of the City it is inefficient, slow, wastes capacity, chews up Platform space that could be better used, and costs more to run. Thirdly I dont have a Problem changing trains If its sensible, i regularly need to make 3-4 changes between Bus, LR, train, and Subway to get to where i want to go. Finally, its not me that has to put Up with the hassle and the resulting traffic, it's everyday people in Boston!

My sister (and I briefly) lived on Mission Hill during the 90s, where the E train used to become a literal street trolly. Oh the memories.

still girl, those who say it is those who pay it, i am poor too

We had it like that on a stretch that took about 2 minutes. It took 20 in the rush hour, bumper to bumper. And the seafront, and the City Hall were divided by a 6 lane highway, the statues and fountains not being particulareøy nice to visit, sitting in a traffic island. They built tunnells here too (quite a lot, actually, Norwegains love road tunnells…) and the lines are a memory. And the square between City Hall and the seafront is now a huge "mingling space" for pedestrians.

7:35 mile is quick after a day's work, nice hustle!

So how are things now? Was it worth it?

Used a lot of frozen nitrogen. You could see the feeder pipes on the surface.

When they dug the tunnel for the Victoria line on the London Underground in the 60’s they did something similar. Amazing what engineers come up when faced with unique problems.

indeed an engineering marvel, while I was watching it as an engineer I was very much mesmerized with the techniques and how brilliant they are in thinking of these ideas.

That's pretty common actually.

@@LarryDickman1 - They had to do that as they tunneled beneath the railroad, because the tunnel was only 5 feet deeper than the railroad. No, they didn't cause a collapse.

That's some cool info! Thanks! =D

This indeed was information i needed! Thank you!

I'll do it for two bags of peanuts and not a peanut less! -🐘

The elephants always arrived by train in Cambridge and then walked over to the Boston Garden for the Circus. There was some reason they couldn't go directly to Boston. I remember we would go see them walking when I worked in Kendall Sq.

As a former Mass citizen (though not a Bostonian) - I wondered why my BFF from Boston asked me to drive into Boston.... NEVER AGAIN! I still have nightmares. Not a fan of NYC traffic, but that I can do in a pinch :-)

I was a kid back then. I can't imagine driving in Boston back then. Its bad enough NOW

I love drove in the U.s. Than one day I reach Boston. Lost and jam in traffic. I managed my way out. That was an experience.

@@hkbabel The traffic there is just terrible.. but I learned to drive in Madrid, with even a bigger dig (also full of leaks) and way worse traffic.. so it was okish for me to drive there.

Even now, driving in Boston is not for the faint of heart. Back then, I had a couple of part time jobs driving motor coaches. One was for a charter and tour company located in central MA., and the other was for an interstate carrier, based in Springfield, MA. I was in and out of the city a great deal and if there is one thing I learned about driving in the city, it was that you had to do it like you meant it. I'm not saying one had to be reckless behind the wheel, but one had to have a slightly aggressive attitude.

That happened to me quite often. It probably had something to do with the bars I was in.

Even today GPS or ur phone still struggle to keep up/make the course u should b traveling easy to define.

was this before braincells? lol

@@mthompson0331 ahahhahaha

That’s so sweet. Hope you have kids on the way.

Who says Boston drivers are aggressive assholes. We have some compassion

as a child I thought of how old I would be in 2000 and it felt terrible old. Now we have 2020...

@@Craftlngo Oh yeah, all the time I was growing up it was "By the year 2000" - as if things would be like the Jetsons. It was a sort of magical date. Then it came and went and, meh. Now we're stuck in 2020, the worst year in living memory.

I went to the museum of science to an exhibit when I was a kid now said like ten years I'm 37 and I think they're still building that s***

I started driving as a chauffeur as they started tearing up the city streets in 1997. 2007 was the final parts of the project, but things started opening in about 2004. Man, even that felt like an eternity. Now, in 2024, I'm looking at the project wondering when they'll start thinking about replacing that...still driving...the Big Dig was SO WORTH IT.

I had grandparents in the North End growing up. Going to see them during the Big Dig was a special sort of hell.

Born just outside Boston and it was absolute hell. What should be a 15 min drive took an hour and a half AT BEST.

Tessa Rossa yup. For sure. But hey who cares, keep milking the taxpayers whenever you need more cash, right? /sarcasm

It would have been great if old els were repurposed for bicycles. I don't find them so bad.

Also it doesn't take half the day to drive through the city anymore.

Intellectual Wino yeah that would be great!

I was thinking the same thing, you can't talk about one of them and not the other two.

Honestly, the Titanic is the least interesting construction story out of the three because it never had any refits.

I agree. The tale of those three ships would be great.

This would be my pick, rather than just the Titanic.

And then the rats ran for office and WON!!

Yah I live right next to the state house and I love that I can just pop right over to the North End. Beacon Hill is such a quiet neighborhood and the North End is so lively. It’s great having an easy choice between the two

All of them.

In the future, along with all restaurants being Taco Bell, all KZfaq channels will be Simon's.

SimonTube

As many as he can we love him esp geographics and biographics

@@trashyhobo4957 that would be an huge improvement

I came down to the comments to say yes to the Titanic, but I agree with this even more.

There were sister ships? Love it that would he something that the usual short videos don't get into

I second this!

Yes please do the 3 sister Olympic-class. Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic. They all have great stories.

Agreed! No one ever talks about the other two.

Yes

HMS Dreadnaught may be another good idea with a nautical theme.

Just all Harland and Wolfe to be honest, I asked a couple of weeks ago on a different video for the same thing. I really hope he does

The Japanese destroyer Mushashi would be cool too

@@BamBoomBots Thats a pretty big destroyer.

Yeah, the Titanic kind of just ran into an iceberg and sunk. If he wanted to pick one of the bunch, the longer lived Olympic would be a better choice. She at least won when it came to collisions, with a record of 1 U-Boat sunk by ramming.

Yeah, it's objectively much better now, but it was also a massively collosal fuck up of a project lmao

you are leaving out the fact that the original roads were horrible, made for horses and pedstrians, not automobiles. It's often said Boston's roads are built upon cow paths, and this is beleivable. Also they have many one-way streets (and even partially one-way, partially two-way streets) and Massachusetts had been on a streak of destroying and replacing "rotaries" (known elsewhere as roundabouts), as the rest of the world was discovering that they are much safer traffic solution. That's right, now the world is installing roundabouts, in the 80s, Boston was getting rid of them. Also parking spaces are likewise more expensive. I commuted to Boston from western suburbs in the 80s and basically totally avoided Boston as much as possible the rest of the time. ;D

Cuvtixo D Boston is so so much nicer than the late 80s that was 30 years ago ,no comparison

@LTNetjak really anyone who get a state contract has connections and absolutely it should be a union job , actually I don’t think any company shouldn’t have a union I won’t hire anyone nor in one

Who wants to live in Taxachusetts anyway?

straight improvement right there

To be fair, right _now_ the traffic is a dream. It took a pandemic to fix Boston traffic.

you are giving a cynical, knee jerk wrong reply

The big dig was the craziest time to have to commute into the city everyday...not that it was much better until the pandemic

Anyone else remember the commercials they used to air with the traffic reporter having no delays to report? It was better for a little bit, but didn’t last long. But, at least where I-93 used to run through Boston looks so much better. That was a huge eyesore

its not called barrow anymore

Titanic had a sister ship?

@@spritemon98 Titanic actually had 2 sister ships: RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic.

@@route66flyer29 I saw Simons video about that

I love how foreign People call it Autobahn and not Highway or something like that. Autobahn is directly connected in everyones head to no speed Limits. Awsome

Great Idea!

You need to do it's Canadian brother, the st Lawrence Canal, too, then.

Made buffalo the city with the most millionaires per capita in the world. Then canada dug the welland canal to divert the shipping elsewhere and the rustbelt kicked into high gear....

@@Asmith218 we Canadians are supposedly nice, but we'll quietly dig a canal and turn an American city into ruin 😂

@@mattr0103 The Canadians we usually meet are leafs fans or some of the craziest and most passionate Bills fans from Hamilton area. Nice doesn't usually factor in. The nice Canadians visit cooler places than Buffalo haha.

Definitely - all three had interesting tales.

Yes, absolutely. You don’t see much of the Olympic, even less the Britannic.

@@ArakDBlade Ahh.. Time for the CT herd!

@@kennyduarte783 The CTY herd will swarm all over it! Obvs, we know the Titanic sank when it did, and why it did.. If it even were a different ship, would it matter, the worst that's happened is insurance fraud, and I don't buy ship insurance, so I guess it won't effect my premiums. And who likes insurance companies, other than shareholders?

As a general rule, contractors paid by the hour are in no rush to finish the job and put themselves out of work.

Dont kill the job before the money runs out.

That's most huge Union jobs

Also had friends on that job , the over time scams they had was insane. Being paid overtime while they're at a frigging bar getting drunk. And we're still paying tolls on the pike 👎👎

And people are still wondering why the national debt is growing faster than the GDP

I have never seen a more accurate comment in all my life. You win

Oh boy. PLEASE NO!!! The price tag. THE PRICE TAG. California's reputation for cost overruns, scaled to the Big Dig. The biggest, probably most expensive construction project in the nation. Let's not bankrupt the nation here. California itself would be fine, but i suspect( I mean know) that they would immediately go for federal funding if they were to go bankrupt. And raise taxes. Even more.

@@michaelmoses8745 I never said it would be cheap. But the fact is the city is an absolute mess. Between it's horrific labyrinth of traffic jammed roads, the scores of abandoned buildings, and the entire sections that few brave men would dare venture, the city needs to be completely rebuilt.

I'd settle with an overhead section of the I-5 being built in LA county with the existing road being converted to all south and the overhead being all north. It's not so bad once you get into orange county and it's 7 lanes each way, but 3 lanes is ludicrous. Double the lanes and rush hour will be reduced by an hour on each end

The main reason the old EPA Highway standard was inflated is that the tests were modeled on LA Traffic from the 70s.

Most public projects are like that. It's always," we need extra money for this and for that." In my home state when cost of digging the hole exceeded budget they would just stop digging. We had two projects that languished four years as big holes in the ground until they decided to fully fund the projects.

Reagan wasn't all that dumb then..

Well played but Preston has info on a settlement that needs help

@@TerryMcQ79 I will mark it on your map

Me too.

yeah i was thinking that, too. i still don't know where in the city the tunnel is (or the streets it's replacing) nor do i know how that thing changed the city since i assume the old highways would have been deconstruced or used for something else.

Yeah, he waffles on like fuck

@@larsb8665 The tunnel bisects the Downtown under Atlantic Ave and runs in three separate routes the primary goes directly under the Harbor side Area as mention with grade level exits in the business district near South Station it also connects to an existing tunnel which connected E. Boston to the downtown area the Third section goes from S. Boston under the Harbor to Logan International Airport. That is the simple gist of it but it can be a bit of a maze.

Also I would have liked to see a photo of these “Ginsu” barriers

@@KMBaill79 there's an image on this news site: archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/04/15/state_plans_to_remove_or_cover_big_dig_tunnel_railings_after_deaths/?page=2 It also goes into more detail about how the accidents occurred - mainly, it seems, by people speeding, not wearing a seatbelt, crashing and then being ejected from the vehicle into the barrier. Not nice, but, you know, seatbelts are there for a reason...

Or "Compressway".

I always used to day, "There is nothing 'express' about the Southeast Expressway." I had to commute to Boston from the north in 2000 when the elevated highway was still in use and it was *terrible*. The Big Dig, for all its faults, was a necessary and dramatic improvement.

👍

I prefer SE Xway

But 14,6 BILLIONS OF $ ? Seriously? We have built a 57 km/36,5 ml rail tunnel through the Alps ! 151,84 km/94,39ml in total for 12,2B FrS/. 13,4 B $ Your plans 2,8 B$ Our plans 8,,03 FrS/ 9,09B$ ...

shut your dumb mormon cult loving ass the fuck up

This could be interesting if there is v enough information of it other than the cults propaganda

@@ilarious5729 Now that's not very nice. Our church's activities are often confused with our break off sect in southern Utah. They are the ones who practice polygamy and have engaged in criminal activities. So unless you have a beef with us about our church doctrine, I believe you are confused about who we are.

@@armchairrocketscientist4934 this isn't a religious channel so let's not get into it more, but I have beef with all organized religion, most sects are cult like and cause so much disturbance on the lifes of their members. Good if your experiences haven't been bad but there are plenty of those who have suffered. Good day to you anyhow! :)

@@armchairrocketscientist4934 A beef? Let's list a few shall we? Tithing Tax avoidance Secret ceremonies Brainwashing It was created by a convicted con artist Members are encouraged to not associate with non-members, unless conning them into joining the cult Until very recently it refused to see non whites as people Interfering in family matters even where it's none of your concern Harassing people who want to leave Treating women as baby factories And the most egregious thing of all: MAGIC UNDERPANTS.

NoMercy745 another theoretical mega projects, am I missing an episode?.

@@shaunlenton8865 dyson sphere

Wade Lees thanks

YES!!! Space Elevator

A space elevator is not at all possible. Why would anyone waste their time talking about it? 🙄🙄🙄🙄

I haven't seen a documentary on the construction of the Eiffel Tower, so I like that idea! Maybe the Statue of Liberty? The joint project of constructing the International Space Station?

Don't forget Titanic had 2 sister ships, Olympic & Britannic AND a humongous ongoing conspiracy theory about which one of the 3 'actually' went down that night... Was the ship that said 'as' Titanic actually Titanic, or was it the earlier ship re-badged... There's always a lot of bad luck associated with 'renamed' vessels (apparently.)

I’d also love to know more about the construction of the titanic than I’ve seen in any of the documentaries I’ve come across. I’d be especially interested in more on the construction/installation of the luxury accommodations.

And the potential insurance fraud that happened.

It would be nice to see something about the ship Gustloff. Which was a far worse disaster compared to the titanic but it is rarely reported about.

Matt Eagle I’ve never heard of it but will google it to find out 👍🏻

The Eads Bridge. And its still being used 150ish years later.

Epic. Thank you for the knowledge.

Very nice info Bill.

when the trend is that cars get bigger every new generation of a model the problem will never solve.

@@obelic71 Do they keep getting bigger though. They seem to have gotten to a certain size and fluctuate slightly bigger and slightly smaller

@@DevinEMILE The small SUV style car is only increasing in height and lenght. The normal hatchback saloon and estate in Europe have grew and grew every new generation. The first generation Ford Fiesta was a small 3 door car. same size as the 1st gen VW polo. A modern Fiesta or Polo is 1.5 the size of the 1st gen. and are bigger then the 1st gen Ford Escort VW Golf. European cities have often evolved around the 2000 years old Roman road system who were only suited for oxcarts. So vehicels had to be historicly way smaller then in the US.

I am pretty sure that guy was transferred to Spain. That said they have a great road system, a ton of roads.

Every time they build a new road, it becomes another fucking car park

Even though a Yankees fan I empathize, hate the new Yankees stadium, and hope you never have to traverse the Bronx Expressway - if you ever have had to go S to N on I-95 you likely have your own nightmares! :-)

Traffic was ridiculous before the project though. Trying to get out of the city after a Red Sox game took hours in the old system.

Be very hard to do so, with companies bidding for the jobs to get the works, n then blowouts with unforseen events, mismanagement, and fraud , or error lols. For example Sydney opera house project was originally scheduled for four years, with a budget of AUS $7 million, ended up taking 14 years to be completed and cost AUS $102 million, for a few reasons, but unions and poor management was majority of the issue. But please do exploration of the huge projects in and around Dubai, they're still quite close to on time n budget n quality, I think both the first island, the hotel, an tallest tower all came close to those goals. Of course the Dubai government has quite punishing results ( their jails infamously bad, and time in one is possible for mismanagement of a contract) for fun up n costing moneys.

UNION WAGES DRIVE UP THE COST OF CONSTRUSTION PROJECTS. IM A UNION STEEL WORKER MY SELF. BUT I STILL SEEE THE PROBLEM WITH THIS. POOR PLANING BY PROJECT MANAGERS ALSO CAUSES THIS. THE AVERAGE PERSON WOULD BE SHOCKED TO SEE AN AVERAGE DAY ON THE CONSTRUCTION SITE. $30HR TO SIT AROUND AND WAIT FOR "SOMEONE ELSE" TO MAKE THE CALL

@@jpframpt971 on top $30 to you , your subcontractor is paying about double that for payroll taxes, insurance, super, n other bits and pieces And of course while your sitting there because of a simple problem, say for instance a forklift needs to be refuled but taken an hour or two because of the management forget their responsibility to supply fuels to hire equipment. Forklift is a paltry amount, say 10/hr. But you're sitting on the equipment (say a mixer of high tech surfaces) that's costing better than $200 , and the cranes can't move until you have finished with your efforts, which are waiting at a silly $350hr plus their crew of three, and of course lunch may be called a few minutes near the time fuel gets to you. So that's approximately a grand a hour that's spent, without any production being finished. And as you know this will probably happen a few times until the store on-site has adjusted for the levels needed. And on big projects, all supplies needs go THRU the tendering process to illiminate any possible overspending or sweetheart contracts. Can you imagine what happens when a simple error in management gets out of control. For example one fellow used the inside measurement of a window frame instead of the outside for his crew of 50 cutting holes in a concrete building. Quite the FUBR for over 100 cut till it was caught out of the 500 needed. So about 2000hrs downtime for the week it takes to finding the solution n fix. Not including the window makes his crew n factory, whose work needs fixing or replacing, n Waiting for a week as well. Plus the insurance, infrastructure, utilities, security, public safety etc. One wrong measument, missed by architect, contrator n leading hand costs 750,000 extra, not included in the budget. But what to do w with a building that's 65% finished.? At least the lunch girls turning up in their truc everyday seems happy lolz. Itself easy n fast for things to sprial and doesn't require a dickhead, sometimes inattention or possibly tiredness n stress

Hoover dam was completed ahead of schedule and seems also to have been within budget (skimming wiki), but not without consequence.

*Elon* hold my Hornsdale power reserve

Coming soon :).

No. But I can see where the inspiration came from ;D

@Ex Animus Yeah but there's no way the wind is getting through that thing

And $3k-$4k rent for a 1br apartment. :D

Induced demand. Happens everywhere.

Not just American ;)

Not the Empire State Building.

Mega projects are supposed to run over budget. It's like a key feature or something. It goes like this: The public wants something done, and since everyone is such a smartarse they think it's something you "just do". The politicians know damn well that this is going to be hard and expensive, but they want to get reelected, so they reject everything that sounds expensive, so we end up with, if not fringe engineering, then at least "creative solutions". The contractors look at this and go "Yeah, we can do that on budget, provided the following 1000000 conditions hold true. Any of them don't hold true and we start billing you by the hour". Now everything looks good for everyone except the tax payers because this is defunct by design. People get jobs. Shit gets done. Spin doctors help the politicians not look incompetent for signing off on an impossible task. Lawyers get something to do because the different contractors sue each other, the public and a random kinder garden along the way. The various activists of every kind has something feel validated as an activist over. And eventually we have a new thing..... And by the time it's done, it's basically time to start over, because the project needs were deliberately underestimated to be able to sell it to the politicians in the first place.... Yup, representative democracy is AWESOME when it comes to mega projects :P

Thats universal around the globe. The New in 2018 opened North-South 9,7 km metro line in Amsterdam (7.1 km underground the historic city center ) went also way above budget from 800 million to 3 bilion euro. politics and enginering don't mix good! and if politicians say how to do the the enginering you get the Berlin Airport disaster

I have...and I am.

New Englander here.....I approve this message

Are they really? If they classify as die hard cynics by US standards, the average Northwest European would probably still think they were infuriatingly optimistic. :D :D

@@rjfaber1991 Everything is relative :-)

This New Englander can confirm