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[[Image:OnBostonsElevatedCentralArtery.agr.jpg|thumb|left|Traffic on the old, elevated Central Artery at mid-day.]]

Storicamente il grovio stradele di Boston è stato creato molto tempo prima dell'avvento dell'automobile. ByAlla themetà mid-20thdel century,[[XX carsecolo]] traffic inil thetraffico innerstradale citycittadino wasera extremelyestremamente congestedcongestionato, withspecialmente north-southnel tripspercorso especially so[[Nord]]/[[Sud]]. CommissionerIl commissario ofai Publiclavori Workspubblici [[William Callahan]] advancedavanzò plansun forpiano anper elevateduna expresswayvia whichdi eventuallycollegamento wasrapida constructedsopraelevata (che venne costruita tre il [[1951-59)]] betweened theil downtown[[1959]] tra l'area anddel thecentro waterfront.e Theil [[Central Arterywaterfront]]. L'''Arteria Centrale'' (knownconosciuta officiallycome asla thetangenziale [[John F. Fitzgerald]] Expressway) displacedsfollò thousandsmigliaia ofdi residentsresidenti ande businessesattività andcommerciali physicallye divideddivise thefisicamente historicalla connectionconnessione betweenstorica thetra downtownil andcentro, marketl'area areasdei andmercati thee il waterfront. GovernorIl governatore [[John Volpe]] intercededsi ininteressò thenegli 1950s[[anni to50]] sendper thespostare lastl'ultima sectionsezione ofdell'''Arteria theCentrale'' Centralsotto Arteryterra, in underground, through the [[Dewey Square]] (or "[[South Station]]") [[Dewey Square Tunnel|Tunnel]], but while traffic moved somewhat better the other problems remained.

Built before strict federal [[Interstate Highway standards]] were developed during the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] administration, the expressway was plagued by tight turns, an excessive number of entrances and exits, entrance ramps without merge lanes, and continually escalating vehicular loads. Local businesses again wanted relief, historians sought a reuniting of the waterfront with the city, and nearby residents desired removal of this "Green Monster". (Its matte green paint prompted [[Thomas Menino]] to call it Boston's "other Green Monster". The original [[Green Monster]] is [[Fenway Park|Fenway Park's]] left field wall.<ref>{{cite news | author=Associated Press | url=http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3769829 | title=Boston's ‘Big Dig' opens to public | publisher=MSNBC | date=2003-12-20 | accessdate=2006-07-18}}</ref>) [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] engineers Bill Reynolds and future state Secretary of Transportation [[Frederick P. Salvucci]] envisioned moving the whole expressway underground.<ref name= "NY Times"> {{ cite news | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E4DB173DF936A15754C0A9629C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/D/Dukakis,%20Michael%20S. | title=Big Dig Nearing Light of Costly Tunnel's End | publisher=New York Times | date=2004-07-25 | accessdate=2007-12-10}}</ref>