How is this even remotely related to Ted Kennedy or democrats in general.
The main contractor is Bechtel, a major contributor to the republican party.
The project is federally funded.
The current governor of MA is republican.
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Goguen said state Attorney General Thomas Reilly's criminal investigation into the contractors and vendors who supplied the material should steam ahead.
Goguen said the Big Dig's problems stretched back nearly to its inception.
After Republican governor William Weld took office in 1991, the new appointees overseeing the project did not "watch the contractors very well."
For 15 years, the administrative shortcomings of the Big Dig have been clear, but abstract. Monday night, they came crashing down on the heads of a Boston couple on their way to the airport, with fatal results.
The Big Dig's administrative shortcomings include:
The project manager, Bechtel, has consistently acted in its own interests and those of its contractors, not in the interests of the taxpayers and toll-payers for whom it supposedly works.
The Turnpike Authority has acted more like Bechtel's partner than its supervisor.
A succession of Republican governors was more interested in insulating themselves from responsibility for the Big Dig than in accepting responsibility.
A culture of secrecy was fostered, locked in a fortress mentality. The Turnpike Authority treats oversight, transparency and accountability as threats. Over and over again, Pike Chairman Matthew Amorello held press conferences at the Big Dig, assuring everyone that whatever mismanagement or shoddy workmanship was evident, the tunnels were absolutely safe. He was at it again yesterday, only this time he had to explain how a three-ton concrete ceiling panel crushed the life out of Milena Delvalle. aside: sounds like a republican project to me
These shortcomings have led to missed deadlines and cost overruns; the capping of the federal contribution to a project that Congress realized had gotten out of hand; a cost recovery effort undermined by the project managers.
The problems have been visible on the ground as well: Leaks that poured millions of gallons of water in the Fort Port Channel tunnel, breached slurry walls that flooded the Tip O'Neill tunnel; substandard concrete that resulted in federal indictments.
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