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Scott en Aztlán <newsgroup> wrote:
>Nice try, but were talking about urban areas. Boston - home of the Big
>Dig - has been urbanized since the 1700s. It had to be torn apart and
>rebuilt when we shifted from horses to automobiles. If we can afford
>The Big Dig, we can afford to dig a few smaller tunnels for subway
>trains.

Yeah, but we can't afford the Big Dig boondoggle.