Slideshow of rock that destroyed a Toyota Camry
Luckily the owner of the car was rock climbing at the time of the rock falling off the cliff.
Posted on 07/11/2006 1:49:40 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
Pathetic.
Just goes to show what happens when the "project" is run by politicians...
Slideshow of rock that destroyed a Toyota Camry
Luckily the owner of the car was rock climbing at the time of the rock falling off the cliff.
You Nailed it!
Many of the Democrat Mandarins in attendance.
On top of the tunnels, where there are supposed to be parks, there are nothing but huge piles of dirt and concrete that the contruction crews move around, all encircled by Jersey barriers. They dig the ground up, fill it in, dig it up again and fill it in again. This process has been going on for five years now.
As for the tunnels, I hate using them and have always feared them caving in. Unfortunately this nightmare situation came true for one family last night.
No way that it should had been this expensive, weren't the initial projections of this was 2 billion dollars before all the construction took place?
Water seepage was the culprit. That's my guess.
Sounds like a "shake down" not a "cave in." There would be earth on the pavement if something had caved in.
Drippy drip and shakey shake took their, er, toll.
Back before one shovel full of dirt had been turned there were proposals to build a Boston bypass out in the bay. A series of bridges and pontoon bridges. This would have provided better traffic relief and the overhead elevated I-95 in downtown could have been torn down. 14 billion Federal dollars were spent to put I-95 underground. To eliminate an eyesore and open up downtown Boston real estate.
Massachusetts would never have built this "Big Dig" without the 14 billion in Federal money. Well, it sure provided lots of high paying construction jobs for years
Drip drip drip, shake shake shake, shake your "Big Dig" booty
These people are so Green why didn't they go for a buses and trains solution.
Sam and FRiends,
several things are going on with the big dig. One is that Mass., like New York, has unaccountable and unbelievably corrupt "independent Authorities."
Generally, the head of the Big Dig has been appointed by the governor (the last several all Republicans, but very liberal Republicans) and the underlings have all been patronage appointments by the state's majority Democrats. It's sometimes hard to tell where the state Democratic caucus stops and the Bulger/Mafia mob begins... literally.
Naturally everybody's nephew had a job... the whole thing was built with "minority set-asides" paid to people with names like Finnegan and Meyer and Spampinato. There are cons within cons, whole layers of them like Russian boxes.
The Big Dig is a huge failure by any measure, unless its goal was to squander money, in which case it's a success. Whistleblowers have been saying that frickin' tunnel is unsafe for years, in the face of political denials. As far as I'm concerned, Fat Matt Amorello murdered that lady as surely as if he did it with a gun... the scumbag.
One thing is for sure, whatever happens, the Republican Party can't suffer... because it's gone. Literally packed up and moved, following the jobs, mostly. Years of weak leadership hasn't helped... Romney is the only good one in the bunch. (Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey is an incredibly weak candidate who has no hope of winning. According to her media image, she's a silver-spoon spoiled child who has nothing but contempt for chumps who work for a living... having watched her interact with people (as she's thinking, "with her inferiors") in person, I think the media buzz understates this facet of the woman.
The other candidates are (D) Bill Clinton's quota boy, Deval Patrick, and (I) Kristy Mihos (who's a guy), another rich kid playing at politics, but without Kerry Healey's tendency to mistake all and sundry for her servants.
I've decided I can't keep the state from going to Hell. I can just keep from riding along.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Massachusetts home grown environmental wackos did push such proposals but lost out to the "Big Dig" wackos.
Tip O'Neill's last hurrah was to snag 14$ billion construction money from the Feds as the last large project of the Interstate Highway System
Thanks for posting that. We used to drive that stretch of road all the time when we lived in Colorado.
Yep... and I meant to mention in my prior post, when a third harbor tunnel was decided on, the original plan was 12 lanes, plus a bridge... Dems and environmentalists froke.
"That will encourage people to drive cars!" so ultimately the whole thing was downsized to the size of the roads it was replacing, making the net change in capacity about a factor of 1.1 to 1 not 3 or 4 to one like the original proposals.
The scumbag enviros... the grifting politicians... both parties... to Hell with them.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Massachusetts BigDig tunnels, Brazilian dams, NewOrleans levees. I see certain pattern here of corruption making for incompetent construction
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