Closing the barn door after the horse escapes

From the Boston Globe: “In no one we trust”:

In the aftermath of the fatal collapse of a 40-foot section of ceiling in the I-90 Connector to the Ted Williams Tunnel, local politicians followed their usual stale scripts. Amorello overstated the breadth of his knowledge, claiming that the cave-in was ``an anomaly" and that ``the tunnels are safe." Romney persisted in seeing the situation as a simple power struggle, repeating his call for Amorello's resignation ``for a long list of management failures." Reilly, a Democratic candidate for governor, continued to ignore his ongoing responsibilities by launching a toolittle-too-late criminal investigation and promising now to take steps ``to make sure nothing like this happens again."

Again? It should not have happened at all.

Of course, nobody in eastern Massachusetts cared much as long as billions and billions of dollars were flowing into Boston. Nobody questioned whether something was seriously amiss as the Big Dig hit two, three, then four times the original projected cost. Just keep that money flowing, and we’ll worry about those leaks later.