More money for the Big Dig, sure why not?

From the Boston Globe: "$6m more OK'd for Big Dig repairs"

The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority yesterday approved an additional $6 million to pay for Big Dig repairs, increasing the price tag from last summer's fatal tunnel ceiling collapse to $31 million -- with more potentially to come.

That's rich: "potentially." As in "certainly" or "indubitably." Here are all the quotes within the Globe story:

"I sitting here today can't guarantee to the board that there wouldn't be another increase requested."
"It's just growing and growing and growing. Is it coming to an end?"
"We didn't know what the problems were. I would be hard pressed to come up with an estimate back then."

When my axle fractures on a pothole outside Springfield, I'll think fondly of the Bostonites who have had their commutes cut by ten minutes.