Part 7: The Turnpike Revolt
Scratch & Win
GBH News
5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
By the year 2000, the Big Dig has passed through many hands, but in its final years a power struggle spills into public view – over who will determine the project’s fate, and who will take responsibility for its mistakes.
Credits:
Host and scriptwriter: Ian Coss
Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins
Producers: Isabel Hibbard and Ian Coss
Editor: Lacy Roberts
Editorial Advisor: Stephanie Leydon
Fact Checker: Lisa Wardle
Scoring and Music Supervision: Ian Coss
Project Manager: Meiqian He
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Support for the Big Dig comes from Cure Alzheimer's Fund, which supports foundational scientific research |
| 0:07.0 | into the causes of Alzheimer's disease, because research is the only path to a cure. |
| 0:13.6 | Learn more at cure ALZ.org. |
| 0:21.0 | We're gonna pick up right where we left off, the fall of Jim Caraciosiotus. |
| 0:29.0 | What you have to understand is that Carocios rules the the big dig like no other single person ever could. |
| 0:36.4 | Listen, did I have autocratic tendencies? |
| 0:39.2 | Um, yeah. |
| 0:40.6 | And he did it by controlling a very powerful board. |
| 0:44.3 | Did I want a board that was in lockstep? |
| 0:48.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.6 | The board of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. |
| 0:53.0 | And at that point, you're not really looking for collaborators, you're looking for... |
| 0:57.0 | No. |
| 0:58.0 | Supportors. |
| 0:59.0 | And, you know, it's not, it never was a collaborative body. |
| 1:02.0 | Basically what you wanted was two votes |
| 1:06.4 | Why in the world would you want anything other than that good evening. It's day one of the new management era at the Big Dig. |
| 1:13.8 | Yesterday's firing of Big Dig. |
| 1:15.7 | But with Carusyotis now leaving the picture, |
| 1:18.6 | it's time to consider those other two votes, |
| 1:21.4 | the other two people on this three-person board. |
| 1:25.6 | Jordan Levy and Christie hosts were the Big Dig's ultimate odd couple. |
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