Big dig fails again

Response from the construction company that built the big dig…

Bechtel strictly adheres to its contracts and the law and takes pride in its national and international work, said company spokesman Michael Kidder . Large government projects like the Big Dig and Hanford are inevitably complicated, he added.
``Good oversight is good business as far as Bechtel is concerned," Kidder said. ``The huge scope of these projects, and some are first of a kind, are bound to cause some wrinkles along the way, and they become lessons learned."

Some wrinkles along the way? Nice way to put it that they killed a woman.

I can't find a good site which has maps of the tunnels, the connectors, etc. They cite 'ramp a' as being open - but 'ramp a' is big-dig-speak -- there's no 'ramp a' sign on the highway. But, I don't want to just drive it and see, because I will be rerouted through boston and that can get hairry.

....cameras were installed by former Turnpike Chairman Matthew Amorello and linked back to a monitor in cabinet located in a storage room near Amorello's office.

"We are presently reviewing the rationale and reason for these cameras and looking to determine what purpose they served," Cogliano said in an e-mail sent to Turnpike workers Friday.

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Cogliano aide Jon Carlisle said the last known recordings were from July 10, hours before 12 tons of ceiling panels fell from a Big Dig tunnel....