The inflated price tag, rampant corruption, poor engineering and shoddy workmanship all tend to mask the fact that replacing the existing expressway and creating a second entrance to the airport good ideas. However,this plan was in the works for over a decade before they even broke ground. By the time every corrupt politician (including Senators Orca and Flipper)got their piece of the action and every "neighborhood" effected got their own concessions, the design was obsolete. A redesign would mean going back to the very beginning and relining the pockets of the same pols. The existing expressway, like every other elevated roadway in MA, was crumbling and dangerous. So everyone decided to press on and hope for the best. The rest is criminal history. The point is that the initial plan was correct and clever, but the execution was poor and criminal. BTW - Mitt is taking some unwarranted hits on all of this. He was elected after this POS was completed. He's left with the taske of cleaning up for Dukakis, Weld, Cellucci and Swift (a tank riding moron and three RINOs)
thanks for the perspective
this project was in trouble the day it was born, sadly