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Boston's Big Dig
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
May 28, 2003
Country: United States
Project: Boston's Big Dig underground highway and bridge project
Boston Massachusetts, a city strangled by highway and choked by traffic. Through it's heart cut two major artery played by congestion in gridlock. But what if it would possible to replace this urban expressway with parks and send the cars underground.
To build the system which superhighways larger in scale than Panama Canal or Hoover Dam beneath the city without massively disrupting it or shutting it down. Impossible? or is it in fact this engineering feat is transforming America's oldest city but not without confronting unprecedented challenges. How do you hold up streets in skyscrapers while excavating best tunnels miles beneath them? How do you design these tunnels to be smart to handle traffics deadly fumes or fires. Can city solve their traffic nightmares by rebuilding their highways underground?
The most complex highway system ever built is about to open to the public. Knowing Boston and its big dig is the largest urban construction project in modern history and its engineering achievements promise to end the city's infamous traffic jams. Eight miles of superhighways, half of them underground will carry traffic around or below the city. But as engineers gear up to troubleshoot the opening, there is one wild card that cannot be engineer. How tens of thousands of Harry drivers will react to the may of changes
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Boston's Big Dig.
Project: Boston's Big Dig underground highway and bridge project
Boston Massachusetts, a city strangled by highway and choked by traffic. Through it's heart cut two major artery played by congestion in gridlock. But what if it would possible to replace this urban expressway with parks and send the cars underground.
To build the system which superhighways larger in scale than Panama Canal or Hoover Dam beneath the city without massively disrupting it or shutting it down. Impossible? or is it in fact this engineering feat is transforming America's oldest city but not without confronting unprecedented challenges. How do you hold up streets in skyscrapers while excavating best tunnels miles beneath them? How do you design these tunnels to be smart to handle traffics deadly fumes or fires. Can city solve their traffic nightmares by rebuilding their highways underground?
The most complex highway system ever built is about to open to the public. Knowing Boston and its big dig is the largest urban construction project in modern history and its engineering achievements promise to end the city's infamous traffic jams. Eight miles of superhighways, half of them underground will carry traffic around or below the city. But as engineers gear up to troubleshoot the opening, there is one wild card that cannot be engineer. How tens of thousands of Harry drivers will react to the may of changes
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Boston's Big Dig.
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The boston big dig and the problem with complex projects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
The boston big dig and the problem with complex projects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
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