WinterNight 2007: Boston CityScape
Financial District and Government Center Skyline
View from the North Station area
Boston, MA, USA

It took more than US$15 billion and more than a decade to get this view of the Boston skyline from this vantage. And, still unfinished. Before this, there were montrous decaying green steel , of multiple overpasses and underpasses in the North Station area to connect the busy corridor from Northeastern Massaschusetts and the rest of Northern New England to the rest of the United States.

It was a busy corridor passing through the very heart of the city -- that created traffic for even the simplest reasons -- all over Boston. This green steel of montrosity, though actually very short, about a mile or so, I think and a few hundred acres effectively isolated the North End (the Italian enclave in Boston) and Charlestown from the rest of the Boston area.

For this reason, someone thought of placing the entire thing underground (well partially) to deal with the traffic that was paralyzing not only Boston but the Northern New England corridor.