North End Moment X
This morning as I walked down the back alley to work, a construction crew was tearing up the blacktop in the parking lot adjacent to the alley and the old folks' home behind the Scotch & Sirloin building. About 30 minutes ago, the crew had finished flattening the resulting sand surface -- and had started adding fresh blacktop to repave the lot. $20 says they'll finish the job today.

The Big Dig could learn something from this, I think.