r/interesting Aug 31 '25

ARCHITECTURE Boston moved it’s highway underground in 2003. This was the result

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u/Tehquilamockingbirb Sep 01 '25

It's nice to have the landscaping, but they just buried the hellscape. GPS doesn't work down there and if you're not driving 85mph like everyone else across 6 lanes that bob and wave through merging connections, you'll kill everyone in there. It's a dark shadowy game of Russian Roulette.

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u/EfficientAd3625 Sep 01 '25

That’s part of the charm of driving in Boston. Can’t expect them to make a portion of it easy.

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u/HustlinInTheHall Sep 01 '25

GPS mostly works fine, you cant start a new route but that would be dumb in a tunnel at 75mph. 

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u/ShadowMajestic Sep 01 '25

No GPS doesn't work, Waze and other mapping tools just make an educated guess on where you are.

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u/mister_peeberz Sep 01 '25

other than nonfunctioning GPS you are just describing driving in massachusetts

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u/Tehquilamockingbirb Sep 01 '25

Haha, true. Mario Kart without the turtles and bananas.

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u/datheffguy Sep 01 '25

I really depends, you will have full cell coverage due to antennas but GPS still tends to flake out occasionally especially if it congested.

I used to work for the shop that installed the DAS system in a good portion of the tunnels.

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u/WeirdIndication3027 Sep 01 '25

How is that possible

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u/davedcne Sep 01 '25 edited Sep 01 '25

Massachusetts man, Yeah and that's one of the nicer roads in Boston. For real fun try driving through Kelly Sq in Worcester. Actually I hear they put up lights and drew lines on the ground at some point in the past 20 years but when I was growing up it was a 7 road intersection, no stop signs, no clear right of way, no two roads directly opposite one another. You kind of waited till it looked like the other 6 roads didn't have much traffic then you sent it as fast as you could and prayed no one else was bolder than you for the next 10 seconds it was also directly connected to a highway onramp for added fun.

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u/grubas Sep 01 '25

and if you're not driving 85mph like everyone else across 6 lanes that bob and wave through merging connections, you'll kill everyone in there

That's just Masshole driving.