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You Can’t Dig Your Way Out of Congestion?

The Boston Globe reports that post-Big Dig, bottlenecks in the Boston region, while lessened downtown, have been shifted outward — perhaps a result of more people now choosing to drive through the center of town.

It also notes:

“The cause of the delays on highways that lead into the Big Dig is, perhaps not surprising: more cars and trucks. On I-93 north of the city, for example, 202,000 motor vehicles drive past Roosevelt Circle in Medford, 38,000 more than in 1987, a 23 percent increase, according to state data.”

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One Response to “You Can’t Dig Your Way Out of Congestion?”

  1. Mike Spack Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 9:20 am

    The article referenced the bottleneck problem on the suburban highways as they lead into the Big Dig area in Boston. The Minnesota DOT has taken a pretty effective approach to working on congestion in the Minneapolis/St.Paul area that is pretty much the opposite of the Big Dig. They are doing a lot more small scale projects that are aimed at removing bottlenecks instead of adding miles of new lanes. This is an outcome of the limited funds they have to work with. Here is a write-up by FHWA on the process - http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/bn/resources/mndotprocess.htm.

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