Seth Moulton does not seem like a Crazy man, but the congressman from Salem is telling me something crazy. He thinks Massachusetts should build another multibillion-dollar Tunnel under the city.
“The back of the envelope math is very compelling,” he told me recently over lunch in Boston.
Not only that, but advances in tunnel-boring technologymean the good people of the Commonwealth would hardly feel the kinds of disruptions we endured during the Big Dig.
“People in the city of Boston will not know a tunnel is being built,” Moulton said with a straight face.
Readers of this column know this idea by another name:North-South Rail Link.
It’s a transportation pipe dream that has been kicking around for four decades and whose biggest advocates have been two former governors, Mike Dukakis and Bill Weld. They have famously put aside partisan politics to make a case to the sitting governor, Charlie Baker.
Until now, Baker and the rest of the Beacon Hill establishment have been humoring the two elder statesmen about their 2.8-mile tunnel to connect Boston’s two main train terminals, North Station and South Station.
Read the entire Boston Globe article here.
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