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Posted by: KeithMcDuffee 2 years, 1 month agoA woman was killed when three-ton concrete panels fell from the ceiling of a Big Dig tunnel and crushed the car she was riding in late Monday night, Massachusetts Turnpike Authority officials said. The driver escaped through a car window. I smell hefty lawsuit.
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Frank 1
July 11, 2006, 9:24 a.m.With all the corruption in Boston this unfortunate loss of life can be expected. I got out of Massachusetts many years ago after trying to do honest and safe work as a contractor in Boston. Boston should learn from the honest city's and towns in the rest of the state. For the rest of you out their from the North - Route 60 is a nice safe ride thru some very nice towns.
My sympathy to the family
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rodent
July 11, 2006, 1:14 p.m.another Red Sox fan bites the dust.One less fan to have to deal with.
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mikemc
July 11, 2006, 8:22 p.m.We had better find money to keep up our infrastructure or pay a dear price later.
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beantown
July 12, 2006, 10:17 a.m.This is an absolute tragedy, i cant believe ppl are taking this lightly
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Helixbuilder
July 12, 2006, 10:26 a.m.My God what a price to pay for someone else's incompetence!
What a tragedy!
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OZLelila
July 12, 2006, 12:30 p.m.This is an excellent reason to encourage people to use public transportation. If it wasn't seen as so necessary in this country to own your own car, we wouldn't need things like the Big Dig and gas prices wouldn't be so high.
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zDom
July 12, 2006, 5:07 p.m.Somebody dies and you've got to use it to tout sports and partisan politics? Not to mention bringing in homosexual marriage (I'm against that, btw - but it has NOTHING to do with this story. You sound like that wacko preacher from Kansas, every1s).
It's also NOT about dedicating resources to our infrastructure - this is the results of greed and corruption. There was more than enough money thrown at this project. It went way over budget... WAY over budget. Froggy had it right.
The project was estimated at $2.5 billion in 1985 (about $4 billion in today's dollars).
State Police found evidence of faked records that hid the poor quality of concrete delivered for highway project.
Six employees from the concrete supplier Aggregate Industries Inc. were arrested and charged for falsifying records regarding the poor quality concrete.
(Additional information from the Wikipedia to refresh my memory - I've been reading about this on the AP news wire for years.)
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1-2-Oscar
July 12, 2006, 8:12 p.m.The fraud and corruption associated with the "Big Dig" rivals that resulting from government-funded activities to repair damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. Billions have been wasted and billions have been stolen, but no action has been taken because the perpetrators are protected by prominent politicians (in both instances).
The quality of the work in that tunnel was so poor that inspectors have already identified at least 60 more flawed areas, some of which may pose similar fatal hazards. But the public money is gone, and reconstruction of the tunnel will require that even more public billions be spent to fix the most expensive roadway in human history.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13828318/
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1-2-Oscar
July 12, 2006, 8:17 p.m.BTW, zDorn, although the cost of this project was initially estimated at $2.5 Billion, overruns, shoddy construction, and other avoidable problems resulted in the expenditure of over $14 Billion before the roadway was officially opened.
It really is the most expensive roadway ever built, and a number of people have become very wealthy building it.
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Helixbuilder
July 13, 2006, 9:08 a.m.Every1s, to believe that only one political affiliation is capable of malfeasance is naive. History shows that over and over that people can become corrupted regardless of politics. The truth is there face it.
No one deserves to die due to someone else's incompetence and greed. It is a tragedy!
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zDom
July 13, 2006, 1:24 p.m.Exactly, Oscar (I originally had in the final, bloated figure but had to do a lot of cutting to get my post under 1,000 words).
I wonder if organized crime had anything to do with this project (or am I just watching too much of the Sopranos? : )
As for the lawsuit for the victim - I hope the CONTRACTORS end up paying it instead of taxpayers if/when that happens.
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