WRKO (680 AM) suspended talk radio loudmouth John DePetro for referring to Turnpike Chairman Matt Amorello as a "fag." In an additional, highly insightful analysis of the Big Dig situation, DePetro described Amorello as a "sissy … [Read more...]
CA/Tastrophe
BMG denizen shack has coined the perfect one-word sums-it-all-up description of the current state of the Big Dig (formally known as the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, or CA/T for short):CA/Tastrophe.Couldn't have said it - and, in fact, … [Read more...]
Overlooked
Thanks to UHub, we welcome the Big Dig Debacle blog, which has some historical comparisons for the bolts that never got inspected:* A rudder that was too small for the Titanic and the main turbine couldn't properly reverse* An improperly … [Read more...]
Good, Fast, Cheap – Shame, Shame, Shame…
The real "law" is that project managers must BALANCE good, fast, and cheap and stakeholder needs and expectations. When the balance is lost, project stakeholders suffer.Think of the good/fast/cheap placed at the three vertices of an … [Read more...]
The last resort: Doing it right
So we've been talking a lot about taxes, politics, and public investment here. It might be interesting to bring up the case of Mark Warner, former Dem governor of Virginia who pushed through a tax increase to invest in public … [Read more...]
Matt Mulvey, Candidate for State Senate, Speaks Out on the Tunnel Tragedy
There can be no excuse. Public Safety must come first in the CommonwealthThe collapse of the concrete ceiling panels in the I-90 Tunnel Connector on July 10, 2006, was a tragedy that didn't have to happen if public safety was of … [Read more...]
… and if you thought the tax rollback wasn’t a big deal before,
it is now.The fatal Big Dig tunnel ceiling collapse could trigger, in a worst-case scenario, toll increases for the Boston Harbor tunnels and the Weston-Boston stretch of the Massachusetts Turnpike, according to bond rating firms that … [Read more...]
Big Dig: NTSB is in
The National Transportation Safety Board has announced that it will launch an investigation of Monday's Big Dig ceiling collapse. Reportedly, the NTSB is one of the few state or federal agencies having anything to do with … [Read more...]
The paper trail – or what’s left of it
Two items of interest from the Herald on Big Dig-related documents.First, the Herald says it has "secret documents" showing that, as early as 2001, both Bechtel and the Turnpike knew of significant defects in the supports that were supposed … [Read more...]
Why Matt Amorello should step down as chairman
It may not have been his fault.Or it may have been - I really don't know. But with last night's vote in the legislature to transfer control of the investigation of Monday's disaster away from the Turnpike Authority, together with … [Read more...]
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