Re: The New Tunnel

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

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From: "tony schinella" <radiotony@attbi.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: The New Tunnel


> I think they should call it "The Bechtel $16 Billion Boondoggle Tunnel"
> Can you imagine Metro Traffic saying that a few times an hour? Hah!

The old bridge between Portland and South Portland was called "The Million
Dollar Bridge" so there's precedent for such a name.  That was apparently
roughly the cost of the bridge when it was built.  I don't think that was
the official name but that was what everyone called it.  The new bridge, by
the way, is called the Casco Bay Bridge.  That's a boring name and also
geographically questionable because the bridge doesn't actually cross Casco
Bay.  If South Portland's Billy Swift had made the Hall of Fame, maybe they
could have named it after him.  Of course, Bob Stanley was born in Portland
so they could have named it after him, but then people would be afraid that
the bridge would crack under pressure.

We don't have any tunnels in Maine.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine