$14.6 billon and this is what we get?

Jay strolls around the North End and is already out of love with the post-Big Dig landscaping around Salem Street:

... I think it's going to be a bummer for all of us who had high hopes for something much, much better, i.e., Did they learn ANYTHING from the City Hall Plaza all-brick/concrete debacle? It looks like an urban landscape that might appear in Phoenix or somewhere else -- a minimalist urban park system that you'd expect from someone trying to skimp on landscaping costs. ...