Probe into "Big Pig" leads to 6 arrests
When I went out to Boston to visit my sister back in December, I got an earfull from the locals about the Big Dig, dubbed "big pig" by Bostonians because the costs of the dig that buried Interstate 93 in tunnels beneath downtown and connected the Massachusetts Turnpike to Logan Airport with a third tunnel beneath Boston Harbor have ballooned from $2.6 billion to nearly $15 billion. Construction on the dig started back in 1991, only just fully opened earlier this year, and has had a gazillion problems, shutdowns, leaks, and flooding. I can't think of a better example of exactly what's wrong with government projects... Things cost more than they should, despite huge costs corners still get cut wherever possible, the time frame to get things done goes from weeks and months to years and years, and things just generally don't go smoothly at all.
Well no wonder the damn thing leaks like a friggin' sieve. Hopefully they find all possible sources of incompetence involved here, including (and perhaps most importantly) those in the government. |