Highway in the Sky

Boston, MA - bigrock - Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005 : goo

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The hulking elevated Central Artery highway that has marred the Boston’s landscape for more than four decades has carried its last car. It has been replaced — five years late and billions over budget — by a tunnel routing Interstate 93 under downtown Boston.

The opening of the new southbound lanes of I-93, which now handles about 91,000 cars per day, was the last major milestone of the $14.6 billion Big Dig, officially known as the Central Artery/Tunnel Project.

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