Excerpt:
This website contains material useful to people studying the history of the CA/T highway, especially the Charles River crossing part of the project. During 1998, we operated an interactive website for the purpose of collecting original material from people who were involved in planning the crossing. Some comments and articles contributed by people involved in the crossing design process are available on-line. Other material at this website includes a chronology of planning the crossing, a chronological bibliography of important transportation documents with links to some of these, and images. Hardcopy material pertaining to the crossing is available in the vertical file collection at M.I.T.'s Rotch Library.
Annotation:
This site presents a historical overview of the Massachusetts Highway Department's Central Artery/Tunnel Project for downtown Boston, known commonly as the "Big Dig." In particular, the site focuses on the northern part of the project linking Cambridge and Charlestown with Boston over the Charles River. Documents surrounding the planning, testing, legal wrangling and execution of the project are listed chronologically. The site also includes maps and other images relating to the project's development, and several recollections by transportation engineers, civil engineers and others who worked on the project and had to accommodate the conflicting interests of residents, builders and government planners.