Who Owns the Rose Kennedy Greenway?

摘要

Designers getting ready to design the Rose Kennedy Greenway above Boston's Big Dig face a daunting challenge. It is among the nation's most emotionally scarred properties. In the 1950s, the "Green Snake," an immense elevated section of I-93, was forced through downtown Boston, swallowing a huge chunk of real estate. More than 20,000 people lost their homes, and much of the city was cut off from its waterfront. Thanks to the Big Dig, which has ballooned into the country's largest public works project, the Green Snake will finally be torn down sometime in 2005, and I-93 will be buried in a high-tech tunnel. But the Big Dig itself has become a controversial project. Since the early 1990s, it has transformed much of downtown Boston into a construction zone; it is seven years behind schedule and about $9 billion over budget.