The only company charged with manslaughter after a woman died in a Boston tunnel collapse in 2006 has agreed to pay the state and city $16 million in exchange for the charge being dropped. By Abby ...

If you've ever wondered why it is so difficult to build infrastructure in this country, why these projects take so much time and cost so much money, there's a podcast that can offer some clues. It's ...

Forty years ago, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis announced the start of a project that would become known as “The Big Dig,” the most expensive highway project in the nation’s history. (Fun fact ...

Boston, MA — September 13, 2023 — Can America still build big things? It's the central question of The Big Dig, a new podcast announced today from GBH Newsand PRX, examining American infrastructure ...

When a former Big Dig engineer came forward to say recently uncovered structural defects made it impossible for him to vouch for the safety of the I-93 tunnel, project engineer John Christian told a ...

A lawsuit that claimed tolls on the Mass Pike were being used illegally to pay for the massive Big Dig highway project was dismissed by the state's highest court. State contractors are boring into the ...

Every American city is divided by crumbling old highways. Every city is trying to figure out what to do with them. Join Ian Coss, host of the Peabody-Award winning podcast “The Big Dig,” for a live ...