Why doesn this plan include burying Storrow Drive behind the Esplanade?
If the section of Storrow Drive behind the Esplanade were ever buried, it would be a cut-and cover tunnel (similar to the existing tunneled section of Storrow Drive already buried to the north of Back Street between Arlington and Berkeley Street, in the Back Bay). That effort would be a different technology and venture than what is proposed here. The proposed Freshgate Tunnel would be a deep-bore tunnel. It could be built and opened with far less interference to existing traffic flows during construction than burying Storrow Drive behind the Esplanade would entail. Also, such a venture at the Esplanade would seem to be beyond the purview of Harvard University – the proposed funding source of the deep-bore tunnel in this vision. Burying the existing roadway between the Esplanade and the Back Bay may be a good idea, but it is not the purpose of this website to advance it.
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