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SoHo thwarted Moses's Lower Manhattan Expressway San Francisco residents put a stop to freeways infiltrating the urban core and Eastern Massachusetts drew a line in the sand as well, stopping the Inner Belt, a mini version of Route 128 that would have run from Roxbury to Somerville, and the Southwest Expressway, which would have blasted Interstate 95 in the south all the way to Back Bay Station. The elevated six-lane Central Artery, which opened in 1959, linked the Southeast Expressway with points north, with plentiful offramps to access the city and its proliferation of above-ground parking garages.īy the end of the 1960s, however, cities started to say no to rampant highway building.

New York City master builder Robert Moses established the model with highways like the Cross Bronx Expressway, and Boston eagerly followed the game plan with the construction of Interstate 93 through downtown. Congestion, coupled with the perceived need to compete with flourishing suburbs, prompted Boston and cities around the nation to create urban freeways. The cow-path quilt of streets on the Shawmut Peninsula - essentially downtown Boston - did not transition smoothly to the automobile age. Getting to and from Logan Airport has never been easier, whether picking up grandma or getting an executive to a startup in Fort Point or along Route 128.Ī worker moves earth near the Red Line. Above those famously expensive tunnel boxes is some of the most beautiful and valuable urban real estate anywhere in the nation, if not the world. But the traffic moves, and for 1.5 miles through downtown Boston, it moves out of sight, underground. Rush hour brings what radio reporters refer to as heavy volume. How are we feeling now? Maybe there's room for some grudging appreciation. Yet, here we are, 10 years after the official completion in 2006.

There seemed to be mistakes at every turn, making the price tag even more laughable, from design blueprints that didn't line up properly, to the faulty mixing of concrete, to, most tragically, a ceiling collapse that killed a car passenger in one of the new tunnels. It didn't simply take more time than expected it was eight years behind schedule by the time it was done. The copy-and-paste phrase on reporters' computers was that it was "plagued by cost overruns," ballooning from $2.6 billion to nearly $15 billion ($24 billion, counting interest on the debt). What they did is moved the map and scoring section from the side to the bottom, leaving the actual gameplay area basically unchanged.It didn't just cost a lot of money. They have been altered to use a vertical one.

Those games originally used a horizontal monitor. One major note for purists : The 'original' versions of "Rally-X" and "New Rally-X" have been slightly altered. Additionally " New Rally-X" is available as well. Namco Classics Collection Vol.2 is an arcade video game and as its name implies is a collection of classic Namco games (" Pac-Man", " Dig Dug" and " Rally-X") with original and updated 'arrangement' versions available.