When airport expansion threatened their neighborhood, thirty mothers with baby carriages blocked traffic in the middle of the street.
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Boston highway politics rendered through rivalry, weather, and a city trying to remake itself.
The Big Dig treats Boston's highway fights as a story about friendship, power, and the cost of changing a city. Fred Savucci and Bill Reynolds stand on opposite sides of the debate, and the piece keeps asking how a city moves forward without brushing aside the people already…
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You want Boston's tunnel wars told like a civic family feud.
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