Posted on 07/11/2006 1:49:40 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
A portion of the ceiling in the tunnel connecting Interstate 93 north to the Ted Williams Tunnel collapsed last night, cascading debris onto a passing car and killing a female passenger, authorities said this morning.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene but her husband managed to crawl out of the crumpled car, said state officials, who would not release their names. The man was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital.
The ceiling collapsed at about 11 p.m. and immediately led to the shutdown of the tunnel by State Police as Boston firefighters worked to remove the woman from the vehicle, officials said.
The tunnel system is part of the Big Dig construction project overseen by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority.
State Police said the tunnel was shut down to give engineers time to study the extent of the damage to the ceiling and to the roadway.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Why no, we couldn't possibly imagine another piece of ceiling falling down like this, could we?
IBRF
OR In before "Romney's fault".
" Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. "
Ineptness abounds in the liberal mecca of New England . Sad ...
Ugh....thank God I don't have to travel in tunnels.
I do all the time here in mountainous Japan ...but the Japanese do it right , for the most part .
What was the total cost of this...thing?
Bet the Japanese engineers actually do calculate what happens when thousands of Mack-san trucks lumber by. Vibration is prolly what did this piece of ceiling in.
The episode was the latest in a series of problems for tunnels involved in the $14 billion Big Dig project.
Big Dig officials stressed then that the tunnel was safe.
Lol. Right.
The same people who can't get a tunnel built (in how many years?) are the ones complaining that the entire country of Iraq isn't rebuilt yet.
Ah, another great job done by unions with my tax dollars.
What a bad joke this thing is.
" the Japanese engineers actually do calculate what happens when thousands of Mack-san trucks lumber "
The U.S. engineers probably graduated from Harvard ! Hehe...
Boy, Ted Kennedy thought cigarettes were bad - wait til Boston gets sued for this one ...
Why should the ceilings even be constructed of anything as heavy? Those look like chunks of concrete lying there on the pavement. I'd put in something light enough that if it fell on a car it would not do anything worse than dent it.
I saw the headline with "Tunnel and "collapse" and immediately though - Terrorists. Then I saw big dig and realised it was- Kennedy!
What a lovely 14 Billion dollar potential death trap they've built!
Meanwhile, in California..
Empire Built On Sand. Businessman allegedly poured inferior concrete into key projects [bridges]
And in Brazil, we have this...
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