Synopsis: Plans for the city of Boston, Massachusetts, were to tear down the heart of the city in order to build a road below ground. This was avoided when an engineer named Fred Salvucci submitted his brilliant plan which would be known as the Big Dig. This episode of the PBS series GREAT PROJECTS examines... Plans for the city of Boston, Massachusetts, were to tear down the heart of the city in order to build a road below ground. This was avoided when an engineer named Fred Salvucci submitted his brilliant plan which would be known as the Big Dig. This episode of the PBS series GREAT PROJECTS examines Salvucci's controversial plan and how it kept a city together both socially and geographically. Stacy Keach narrates. [More]