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New book cites government downsizing as cause of Big Dig, other problems

April 7, 2010 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from the Accountable Strategies blog)The book points out that that the Big Dig, in particular, suffered from a range of managerial issues common to public projects in which key managerial functions have been privatized.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bechtel, big-dig, downsizing, iraq-reconstruction, public-projects

Big Dig settlement: What should we think?

January 24, 2008 By Charley on the MTA

So, we're getting $458 million from Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff et al. $100 million is going to be spent immediately. The contractors are released from criminal liability, and not prohibited from working on MA projects in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bechtel, big-dig, coakley, massachusetts, sullivan

A rush to judgment in the Big Dig tunnel collapse

August 10, 2007 By dave-from-hvad

Cross-posted from the Accountable Strategies BlogPowers Fasteners may well be guilty of all of these charges and may deserve to have the book thrown at them.  But certainly others are to blame in this mess.  Yet from the tenor of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bechtel, big-dig, coakley, powers, tunnel-collapse

Big Dig Culture: Could this be more pathetic?

October 26, 2006 By Charley on the MTA

Isn't this just more and more astonishing? Mitt chucks 'Pike chief and all-around good-guy John Cogliano under the bus:Gov. Mitt Romney is blaming transportation secretary John Cogliano’s haste to reopen Big Dig tunnels after July’s fatal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bechtel, big-dig, cogliano, massachusetts, romney

Bechtel Bucks Buying Breaks?

July 24, 2006 By Charley on the MTA

From the Hiding In Plain Sight Department, Aaron does good work with the lobbyist database. Here are some folks who have taken money from Bechtel lobbyists who work with Bechtel (thanks to Hoyapaul) -- Aaron doesn't specify a time … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bechtel, big-dig, ca/tastrophe, massachusetts

The Big Big Dig List

July 19, 2006 By Charley on the MTA

OK, so here's a list of people I want to see giving testimony at a long table that comes up to their necks, with nothing but a glass of lukewarm, sediment-laden tap water to comfort them:Jim Kerasiotes: Head of the Big Dig from 1991-2000. … [Read more...]

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