“This tunnel will be a bargain”—John Kerry
The MA Big Dig project went way over budget costing people all over the country. Tunnel collapses, etc Final cost $15 billion
>>Leave it to Massachusetts, though, to turn the Big Dig’s reputation from resounding success to humiliating failure—first in terms of the project’s cost. From day one—even after accounting for politicians’ erring on the low side to gain public approval—the Big Dig was fated to cost more than its 1982 price tag of $2.6 billion.