Boston has successfully moved one highway underground (the big dig) and shot down an extension of I-95 (there are parks and a train route where it was planned now). The city is much better for it.

We're actually going in reverse. In the next 2 years a horrible little spur of elevated highway that cuts through Somerville (McGrath) is getting demolished and replaced with a nice boulevard. That whole area is just blighted at the moment. It's going to become some of the nicest housing with parks and shops.

The statute of limitations on traffic offenses is brief, so I'll fess up that I've biked across the whole length a couple times.

Got some Darwin Award honorable mentions doing it.

I cycle in the area but I value my life too much for that! Happy travels.

Are you forgetting about the big dig?

It did not widen the highway.