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Richard Cochrane is trained in chemistry and metallurgy but is far more interested and practiced as a political and fund raising consultant, writer and amateur historian. He grew up in a Navy family and with his two younger brothers carried on its 500+ year tradition of naval service to Great Britain and the USA then enjoyed a career with one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies working with numerous Fortune 500 companies and many of America's premier educational institutions. He maintains friendships and acquaintanceships around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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ROAD COST $365,000 PER FOOT

December 26th, 2007 • Richard Cochrane
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Boston’s Big Dig was such a long (almost 50-years) complex and costly highway project t ($15 billion) has been likened to performing open heart surgery on a patient while the patient is wide awake and it will end – finally — with 2007. It was originally budgeted at $2.6 billion. The Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project  – as the Big Dig is officially known– has its roots in the construction of the hulking 1950’s era elevated Central Artery that cut a swath through the center of Boston, lopping off the waterfront from downtown and casting a shadow over some of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. 5,000 workers labored daily on the project, four died in accidents, and thousands retired having NEVER working on anything else. It cost a mind numbing $365,000 per foot.

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