I-93 South @ 5:15 p.m.: WTF?

I'm not going to go on some holier-than-thou environmentalist rant here. Let's just get that straight.

Anyway, I just drove home from work for the first time in quite awhile. I've been biking on most sunny days and T-ing it when it rains. But due to an off-site meeting today, I drove. And just as it always does—whenever I have the misfortune of driving southbound down Boston's lovely section of Interstate 93—the road looked like a Wal-Mart parking lot. I know the Big Dig connects previously isolated neighborhoods and is a huge improvement over the crappy mess of elevated roads we had before, but it cost $14.6 billion and this is what we get?

If I'm an ungrateful jerk and totally off-base here, please comment and let me know. I don't mind whining, but I want to at least be right.