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Colonel Thomas Sullivan (left) and City Treasurer Edward L. Dolan with a model of the Sumner tunnel, then under construction.

Tunnel visions

Big Dig tragedy puts onus on Boston's old reliables

By Mac Daniel and Ari Bloomekatz
Globe Staff And Globe Correspondent / July 16, 2006

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They are once again the bulwarks of Boston, side-by-side tunnels of yesteryear, built one steel ring at a time to ferry traffic and commerce to and from East Boston back when gasoline still cost pennies a gallon and the city still had a West End. (Full article: 952 words)

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