[george76]

[NonValueAdded]

Take down the panels. All of them. Now. Find a durable solution to the problem and THEN install it. Any benefit from the panels is far outweighed by their immediate danger. If people think doing that will cost too much money, consider the economic cost if the road system stays out of commission. In the long run, you are spending dollars to save pennies with this inspection process. Get the Damocles Tunnel reopened and restore some confidence that killer panels are gone.

[martin_fierro]

"*"

[johnny7]

...and nobody will go to jail.

[Sloth]

Remove the panels & re-open.

[dfwgator]

Quagmire!

[Dazedcat]

"The $14.6 billion Big Dig project, the most expensive in U.S. history, buried much of the city's highway network in tunnels"

Someone somewhere made a boat load of money from this boondoggle. Contractors, politicans, whomever ought to be called to task over this.

I cannot believe the citizens of Mass. are taking this lying down.

[Element187]

hmmmph.. I suppose John Kerry and Ted Kennedy want more of our tax dollars to fix it?

[leda]

at it again ping

[Quix]

Until

the gargantuan LOOSE SCREWS

in the US SENATE are removed,

There's likely to be a lot more loose bolts, deaths, treason . . .

e.g. Scuba Teddy, SKerry, . . .

[70times7]

Loose bolts or loose screws? If loose screws in MA cause tunnel closures forget about ever opening them...

[Paleo Conservative]

Perhaps Kerry needs to replace the bolts holding his head on.

[dalereed]

Fill it with water and call it a reservoir.

[jim_trent]

There was a person who posted here that he worked as an engineer on the Big Dig in the past. He was VERY proud of what he did there -- and of the results. He was VERY dismissive of engineers who had not worked on projects as big as he had (that pretty much ruled EVERYONE out). Of course, I am only proud of the projects I worked on that were successes -- not failures, like him. I just wish I remembered his name.

[spintreebob]

For every loose bolt....
...............................there is a loose nut.

[Rippin]

I wish Jerry Williams (local Boston radio talk show pioneer during the '70s and '80's) who called this to the "T" back in 1987 or whenever it was first funded. He knew the city as well as anybody and had the best nose for corruption I've ever come across. He'd be entitled to the Mother all "Told you so"s.

For you Jerry...."HE TOLD YOU SO!"

http://www.radiohof.org/newstalk/jerrywilliams.html

[antti tuuri]

it is a quagmire, we should get out now

[sionnsar]

Bush's fault!

[Arthalion]

Just rip it down already! Replace the panels with a thin guage steel panel and be done with it. Sure, it'll have to be replaced every 20 years or so, but it sure beats squishing motorists!

If the denizens of the Peoples Republic of Massachussets want to go into the hole a bit deeper, they can use a titanium alloy instead. It'll do the same job, be just as fire resistant, and yet it will weigh a fraction the weight of the concrete slabs AND it will last forever.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

What part of Rightsie-Tightise Lefty-Loosie did the contractors not understand?