The year 2006 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Interstate System, the most incredible road system in the world. Created by Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose WW II experiences taught him the necessity of a superhighway for military transport and evacuation in wartime, today's Interstate System is what connects our coasts and our borders, our ...
In a follow up to "The Big Dig"--three little words for the largest, most complex highway construction project ever undertaken in U.S. history--this is a photographic view of the project at night. It's of Boston's $15 billion Central Artery/Tunnel projects, whose mission is to reconstruct two sections of interstate highway running straight through ...
This regional blockbuster reached #1 on the "Boston Globe"Us bestseller list. Filled with dozens of remarkable photos and fascinating archival illustrations, it pulsates with details only an insider like McNichol, former director of the project who was in at the conception, could provide.
How many million cubic yards of earth will Big Dig workers have dug up in downtown Boston when the project is completed? (Sixteen million cubic yards or 192 million wheelbarrows.) Which newspaper, reacting to wildly high cost overruns and scandalous cover-ups, ran the sensational headline, "The Big Dig: Bankrupt"? (The Boston Globe, on April 9, ...
Ralph Rogers launched one of the country's most successful, enduring family businesses, and he did it with such flair that he became something of a legend. Over the past one hundred years, Rogers Group, Inc. has built the roads that have become the very fabric of America. From the Ground Up: How Rocks, Roads, and Rogers Group Helped Build the ...
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