[2banana]

What was the last great engineering project in the US?

The Mass “Big Dig” that connected approximately 3 miles of highway under Boston? That took 20 years and was massively over budget?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That took 20 years and was massively over budget?

Unions.

You got a problem wit' 'dat?

[556x45]

Ya but thats the MA way...over budget and under engineered. The falling tiles were a ‘feature’.

[Travis T. OJustice]

No, not twenty years, and their initial estimate was insanely stupid.

It was a hell of a project, I’m proud to have been a part of it. Constructing, not design, that was an abortion.

[Wuli]

“What was the last great engineering project in the US?”

What “great engineering project in the U.S. is an economic necessity? Are engineering projects SUPPOSED to be done only ‘cause their cool?

“The Mass “Big Dig” that connected approximately 3 miles of highway under Boston? That took 20 years and was massively over budget?”

When maybe it would have been cheaper and less disruptive to move NOT build the tunnel, but instead to have taken up some alternate solutions to the I-93 and I-90 roads and routes?? Or would any alternatives not been as grandiose or “created or sustained” as many jobs??