"The Big Dig, for listeners who don't know, is the notorious Boston infrastructure project, where basically the city tore down an elevated highway and replaced it with a tunnel. This was something that played out through the 1990s into the 2000s. I grew up in Massachusetts, so [the Big Dig] was this thing that was going on in the background that everybody complained about endlessly, and that's really all I knew about it."
"Highway teardowns are messy, multi-decade projects that spark countless debates and competing narratives - even among livable streets advocates who broadly agree that replacing auto-centric infrastructure is a good idea. But in his Peabody Award-winning podcast, 'The Big Dig,' Ian Coss was able to do the impossible by encapsulating the Boston project of the same name into nine astonishing, thought-provoking episodes."
Ian Coss created a Peabody Award-winning podcast called 'The Big Dig' that chronicles Boston's complex infrastructure project where an elevated highway was demolished and replaced with a tunnel during the 1990s and 2000s. Growing up in Massachusetts, Coss became interested in revisiting this project to understand public anger, its objectives, and actual outcomes, resulting in a nine-part podcast series. Building on this success, Coss launched the Highway Teardown tour in October, visiting cities that have completed or are pursuing similar highway removal projects. The tour encompasses twelve cities total and aims to reflect on the broader freeway fighting movement across America, how advocates continue pushing forward despite political challenges, and strategies for improving these complex, multi-decade projects.
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