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FROM BOSTON GLOBE IDEAS
The next Big Dig
David Scharfenberg
For centuries, Boston was a wildly ambitious city. After the Big Dig, it grew timid. But with existential problems bearing down on the city and region, it’s time to go big again.
Explore visionary plans for housing, education, climate, and transit →
More infrastructure ideas
IDEAS | KELLY HORAN
When Boston was bold
The Big Dig was not a perfect public works project. But it was ambitious, visionary, and a feat of engineering that transformed the city over the course of a quarter century.
A city on the ocean, deleting Storrow Drive, and other ideas from readers
We asked. Lots of you answered. Check out how these readers reimagine our region.
IDEAS | KIM JANEY
Affordable rentals go only so far. We need more home ownership.
IDEAS | ANNISSA ESSAIBI GEORGE
Job training is human infrastructure
IDEAS | MICHAEL DUKAKIS
‘An obvious project that we’ve just got to do’
IDEAS | EDWARD GLAESER AND DAVID CUTLER
Straighten the Pike, and then cover it
IDEAS | SCOTT KIRSNER
Speed up the race to net-zero carbon emissions
IDEAS | ERIN ALMOND
Greenbacks for green spaces
IDEAS | MITCHELL WEISS
Government doesn’t take enough risks. Let’s change that.
IDEAS | JENNIE C. STEPHENS
The next Big Dig shouldn’t be a dig
IDEAS | MARIA BELEN POWER
Let’s make electricity everywhere
IDEAS | KARILYN CROCKETT
We can help people make new connections
IDEAS | MEMBERS OF MANNA
Voices from Boston’s unhoused: ‘We need more than four walls’