MassDOT To Manage Issues Like Big Dig Leaks ‘As They Arise’
The Big Dig has been, is, and will most likely continue to be the single biggest boondoggle in transportation history. From the onset, the capabilities were exaggerated (I distinctly remember TV ads taken out on behalf of the Big Dig that showed people driving into Boston with zero traffic); the project was plagued with cost overruns, fighting in leadership, yielding engineering experience and knowledge to political correctness, and every other problem imaginable when the .gov tosses billions (with a b) at a "problem" that it desperately feels the need to "fix".BOSTON (CBS) – Two sections of the I-90 connecter tunnel under South Boston are leaking, and at times, there are hundreds of gallons of water rushing in every hour. It’s the biggest leak in the Big Dig.
Incoming transportation secretary Richard Davey said fixing it will be challenging, but manageable.
But here's the kicker:
“This administration did not build the Big Dig and we are not going to rip it out of the ground. And it’s incumbent upon the men and women at the DOT to manage the issues as they arise,” said Davey.The very first statement from the current administration is "WE DIDN'T DO IT". It's not our fault! It's the other guy's fault!
But then again, he's had three years of Barack Øbama blaming George W. Bush for everything from record unemployment to the lack of cars that run on rainbows and unicorn farts, and it seems to work for him...
That is all.
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So if DumbVal only claims responsibility for what occurred on his watch, then does that not mean he told the Kennedy's to go to Hell? After, the Big Dig was one of Teddy's Pet Projects, correct? Wonder what the Clan is thinking about how DumbVal is treating his Legacy?
I keep tellin ya, you need to move out of the Volkspublic... You can bet you WILL see more taxes to pay for the fix...
The Big Dig is when I lost all respect for Boston's political machine.
Before that, they were blatantly corrupt, but I thought they ran their fiefdom pretty well.
I still remember when I found out they weren't adding any lanes, they were just putting the same highway below ground. WTF? Seriously, why would putting the same highway 50 feet down make traffic better?
I lived there in 1997. I remember the hilarity of reading the two papers and each week somebody was caught for something.
From the workers spending 2 hour lunches in a bar to contractors getting busted for building additions to their houses using materials to buildings being damaged due to bad placement of explosives to pols skimming off funds to pols using workers to work on their property to....
That's when I figured they were heading toward being a New Orleans machine.
Even more corrupt but incompetent. Now that they're whiny, well, that's just the cherry on top.
Yah, and yet here, in Syracuse, they keep wanting to make I81 a tunnel under Syracuse "ala Big Dig! It'll solve all our problems!!" I was literally yelling at the TV a couple weeks ago when it was being discussed (again) on the local news.
Not only are there all the problems the Big Dig still hasn't solved, but some of the lower lying sections of I81 have flooded twice just this year when heavy rains went over. So when they make it a tunnel all those cars that flooded to the window lines in the space of a minute will instead be drowned people when the cars are completely submerged in the space of a minute cause there's even less space for the water to go in a tunnel! Good idea guys!
How much of Boston will fall when the tunnel collapses. Not if but when.
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