I'm Rainierrinson Roth, editor-in-chief and executive producer Frontline and host to the Frontline dispatch.

We're sharing an episode from a new 9-part podcast series by our colleagues at GBH News.

The series is called The Big Dig.

It tells the fascinating story of the most expensive highway project

in the nation's history.

Today we bring you part one of the series,

We Were Wrong.

You can listen to the rest of the Big Dig

at GBH News.org

slash The Big Dig, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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dot org slash cancer. There are many strange and bitter ironies in the story of the big dig,

but here's what has to be my favorite.

It's the most expensive highway project ever built in America, and yet the architect, the man who started it all hated highways.

My grandmother lived near here on Lincoln Street, a man named Fred Salvucci.

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