Saturday, December 24, 2005

Merry Christmas, Massachusetts motorists!

From the Boston Globe – “Big Dig costs may rise by millions”:

The US Department of Transportation's inspector general has drafted an internal memo that says the Big Dig's cost may rise by tens of millions of dollars, according to state, industry, and federal officials.

One of the officials pegged the estimated increase at $75 million. If the estimate proves accurate, the project would cost $14.7 billion instead of the current $14.625 billion, an increase that Massachusetts taxpayers or tollpayers would have to absorb, because the federal government has capped its contribution to the controversial megaproject.
Of course, that extra $75 million is absolutely the final amount of money the Big Dig needs. There will be no further surprises down the road, you can bet.

4 comments:

joated said...

Just one of the many, many reasons Massachusetts was one of the states (along with Rhode Island and NY) to lose population last year. Enough is enough.

Anonymous said...

As the state's junior Senator might say, "Au contraire!" The "Big Dig" is actually slowing down Massachusetts' attrition rate, by making the highways out impassable! Sheer demographic genius!

Anonymous said...

I don’t think he has ever cared about civil liberties – he sees his job as protecting us, not protecting our liberties.

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