Big Pig

Menino has come out voicing opposition to putting an Armenian genocide memorial on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. It is a reminder that the Greenway isn't at all finished – as if the Jersey barriers and haphazard chain-link fencing, backhoes, and dirt weren't enough. The Big Dig tunnels and roadways may be nearly complete, but the surface streets and greenspaces still show the public a seeming breakdown in infrastructure. Today's video is a public art piece put together titled "the Big Pig." The video shot in May 2000 (that's six years for those counting) is a slightly amusing adventure of a big pink pig cutout traipsing through some of the workzones. Boston may feel a sense of loss when those giant blue plywood sheets with a thin yellow stripe disappear from the landscape – it's just been so long.

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