The $15 billion project is a road paved with failures, successes, and what-ifs.
"It didn't just cost a lot of money. The copy-and-paste phrase on reporters' computers was that it was "plagued by cost overruns," ballooning from $2.6 billion to nearly $15 billion ($24 billion, counting interest on the debt). It didn't simply take more time than expected; it was eight years behind schedule by the time it was done. And it didn't just have flaws. There seemed to be mistakes at every turn, making the price tag even more laughable, from design blueprints that didn't line up properly, to the faulty mixing of concrete, to, most tragically, a ceiling collapse that killed a car passenger in one of the new tunnels."
