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'A Wonderful Vision' In the mid-seventies, Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Fred Salvucci became intrigued by the radical notion to put the Central Artery—then carrying some 200,000 cars per day—underground. "It was a wonderful vision," Salvucci said later, "and I couldn't get it out of my head." Initially skeptical of what would be the largest urban highway project ever, Governor Michael Dukakis embraced the plan in 1984. |
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  How engineers contained and controlled the Colorado and Mississippi rivers. Thomas Edison lights up New York City; Sam Insull brings power to Chicago; and TVA electrifies rural America Constructing the George Washington Bridge Putting a major highway under Boston  |
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