In the 1990s, Boston sent nearly a quarter of the Big Dig's 16 million cubic yards of soil to a burning former dump island and helped turn it into a park
- Areas once linked to the old city dump were transformed with trees, shrubs and grasses.
- (Boston preservationa alliance photo)When Boston began work on the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, better known as the Big Dig, in 1991, it was taking on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the city's history.
- The project was planned to reduce traffic on an ageing elevated highway and extend I-90 from south of downtown Boston.
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- Areas once linked to the old city dump were transformed with trees, shrubs and grasses.
- (Boston preservationa alliance photo)When Boston began work on the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, better known as the Big Dig, in 1991, it was taking on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the city's history.
- The project was planned to reduce traffic on an ageing elevated highway and extend I-90 from south of downtown Boston.
Sources: Times of India