The Big Dig | 1. We Were Wrong
Update: 2023-09-27
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Description
Part 1: There is a strange irony behind the Big Dig: the most expensive highway project ever built in America began with a man who hated highways. This is the story of Fred Salvucci’s journey into activism, during what is perhaps the most transformative anti-highway movement in the nation’s history.
Credits:
Host and scriptwriter: Ian Coss
Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins
Producers: Isabel Hibbard and Ian Coss
Editor: Lacy Roberts
Editorial Advisor: Stephanie Leydon
Fact Checker: Lisa Wardle
Scoring and Music Supervision: Ian Coss
Project Manager: Meiqian He
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I love this podcast. I was a child when they began the big dig and my dad's family was from Boston. I remember the hullabaloo even though I was only 10 when it began. The backstory is fascinating to this son of an engineer.