A hole in the ground
Boston’s Big Dig is the gift that keeps on taking. After swallowing $14 billion (with a B) in state and federal funds, this is the upshot of Ted Kennedy’s massive boondoggle: “Big Dig found riddled with leaks – Engineers say fixes could take decade.” Great. There go all the highway funds for us rubes in Western Mass. They should have just paved that thing with stacks of $100 bills – it would have been cheaper.
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Author Wen Spencer features the Big Dig in the fourth book of her wonderful, Ukian Oregon series. It's really an alien attempt to "phone home." ;-)
Once Howie Carr is done with his Whitey book he should write one about the Big Dig. I have no doubt that outright criminal activities - materials substitution etc - are behind this fiscal and engineering disaster.
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