RE: The New Tunnel

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

Names remain whatever the populus decides to call it.

How many traffic reporters said the X-way (vs John Fitzgerald Expressway) is
backed up to the South Station Tunnel (Dewey Square Underpass)

Heck, the x-way has been signed as I-93 for over a decade and even now only
rarely will a traf reporter actually call the Boston-Canton stretch "I-93"

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Dan
> Billings
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:33 PM
> To: tony schinella; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: The New Tunnel
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
>
>