In the Andrew Square area, if you are on the Southeast Expressway heading north, there are two ways to get to Roxbury: get off at the old Southampton Street exit or use the new improved Big Dig-engineered overpass to Melnea Cass Boulevard. Needless to say, even with State Police pulling traffic on the new overpass, the old way, through city streets, is faster. Don't expect that to change.

In many ways, we were better off before the Big Dig.