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Remember the Silver Line? The world's fanciest and most often maligned bus routes will finally be joined by the world's most expensive tunnel if the MBTA has its way. The "Little Dig" (or, more formally, "Silver Line Phase III") will cost more than $1.2 billion, take more than five years to complete, and quite possibly cause the entire Bay Village neighborhood to slide below the Earth's crust. The completely broke MBTA has no plan to pay for the project, aside from federal matching funds, which would leave the T on the hook for more than $500 million, plus any budget overruns. Every blogger in Boston thinks that it's a bad idea. How about you? more ›