Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Boston’s in a hole and still digging. Will London’s Olympics go the same way?

On the way into Boston from Logan Airport, you pass a cavernous, closed-off tunnel entrance, full of construction vehicles, looking at night like an avant garde set for Siegfried.

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