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MA: Records show poor concrete in Big Dig
AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/11/05 | AP - Boston

Posted on 08/11/2005 9:24:52 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

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the $30 is their take-home pay. Your costs will be far higher. You pay 2 different pensions, an annuity, health & welfare, It works out to about $80 per hour, and union rules say y

ou have to have 3 times as many people as necessary. Finishers will not place concrete. form carpenters will not place or finish concrete. I'm not sure, but i'll bet you have to pay another guy to use the edging & grooving tools.

On pump trucks, if it's pumping grout, you need one operator. if any aggregate is in the mix you need 2 operators.


81 posted on 08/11/2005 1:19:14 PM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (This ain't your granddaddy's America)
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Yeah I know about benefits. And finishers do not do carpentry here either. Also, we usually would not finish concrete we do not place, as poorly placed concrete is a b****! We subcontract to place and finish and for us the key to a good concrete job is in the placing. The price goes way up for those who want to help place.

Also NYC deals with a lot of peoples lives.One apartment building can hold thousands of people.I think the city has codes never found elsewhere and they milk the codes for all they can.

82 posted on 08/11/2005 2:04:57 PM PDT by concrete is my business
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To: NormsRevenge

What a surprise from the State of corruption.


83 posted on 08/11/2005 2:07:49 PM PDT by pankot
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To: Slump Tester

Gotta be those 4 and 5" pours.


84 posted on 08/11/2005 2:08:05 PM PDT by Rebelbase ("Run Hillary Run" bumper stickers. Liberals place on rear bumper, conservatives put on front bumper)
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To: Darkwolf377


OMG I forgot all about the Rose Kennedy Park, another total waste of time and money!!! Any Kennedy is a role model dontchaknow! Let's review, uncle teddy "splash" hiccup, joe and the illegal fireworks, michael and the babysitter, bobby's kids with drugs and alcohol, I'm shocked - shocked I tell ya that any Kennedy would be involved with drugs and alcohol! And the traffic is STILL backed up! The beat goes on.....


85 posted on 08/11/2005 3:27:42 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (What do you like best about your life?)
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Don't forget the guy Joe Kennedy, Sr. ruined by hiring an actress to pretend the guy raped her...she later came clean and showed up dead, AFTER the case went to trial. Not to mention what a fine role model Rose was, letting Joe bring his girlfriends to dinner while she sat mute about it.

The Kennedy's are scum who wave the bloody shirt whenever someone dares treat them as if the law applied to them.

86 posted on 08/11/2005 3:31:23 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
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Big Joe, what a buffoon! What would we do without the Kennedys!! They have entertained us for years! Big Joe, little Joe, Big Bobby, little Bobby, it's endless!


87 posted on 08/11/2005 3:37:55 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (What do you like best about your life?)
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The Kennedys are the gift that keeps on giving. Like syphilis.


88 posted on 08/11/2005 3:41:01 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
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To: NormsRevenge
There has always been corruption on highway projects in MA. All one has to do is drive in district 4 (north shore, Lawrence area to the NH border) and experience the condition of the roads. Rt.s 495, 95, and 93 in these areas have the worst road surfaces in the USA and it is because of out of spec material and improper application which must have been signed off by some engineering tech. inspector.

The double decker bridge over the Merrimack has been under reconstruction for about a generation and surfaces that have been repaired have been repaired again in the process. It is a disaster that has caused several deaths and countless accidents.

Since rt. 93 up to NH was designed using the same specs and built at the same time it can be used as a comparison tool to determine the different level of corruption in the original construction and subsequent maintenance. Since the volume of traffic is essentially the same over the first five miles of NH coming from MA it is also a fair comparison. NH is smooth and crowned, not rolling and sunken, it doesn't flood in rain, the expansion joints are sound and the surface is mostly free from exfoliating asphaltic concrete. In MA it is a mess. It has been this way since 1960 when it opened. Years ago a report was issued that the prime contractor skimped on the aggregate used in building up the base. If I remember, the base was to be several courses of aggregate about 50 inches thick but borings revealed that about half the amount was graded in and the rest was bank run material. I guess that is why they get frost heaves on an interstate highway and NH does not.
89 posted on 08/11/2005 3:56:15 PM PDT by Final Authority
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LMAO!!! These buffoons should have left it the way it was, things were much smoother then

You must be joking. The Big Dig may have been a colossal expense, but it's made traffic a million times better in most ways. It smoothed my commute from metrowest to just north of the city when before I never dreamed of taking the Central Artery. And if you can't follow signs at the airport, that's not Massachusetts' problem.
90 posted on 08/11/2005 3:58:13 PM PDT by HostileTerritory
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Lmao!!! Oh man, that was funny!!! AND TRUE!!


91 posted on 08/11/2005 4:23:16 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (What do you like best about your life?)
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Apparently you have not been to the airport since this fiasco big dig has been incorported, there was a time when the signs were backwards, state troopers were giving tickets to people left right and center because the SIGNS WERE BACKWARDS, this caused a major uproar, not MA fault you say? Try again.


92 posted on 08/11/2005 4:39:36 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (What do you like best about your life?)
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Yeah, that was stupid, but now the signs are facing the right way and we still have a much better road system at Logan with great access from the Pike.


93 posted on 08/11/2005 5:03:15 PM PDT by HostileTerritory
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To: NormsRevenge

They shoulda just rebuilt the frickin' freeways! Jeez...


94 posted on 08/11/2005 5:06:14 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Graham Petrie, 1911 - 2005: Rest in Peace.)
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I drove through yesterday at 2PM and the traffic was at an almost dead stop. It's amazing that after all this work, the damned thing is the same size as it used to be.

I'm sorry to hear that. Public works projects are supposed to be improvements. So, if I'm ever in the area, is it good enough to bypass boston on I-95, or should I go way out and take I-495?

95 posted on 08/11/2005 5:16:41 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Graham Petrie, 1911 - 2005: Rest in Peace.)
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"...nor was any concrete delivered to the site which failed to meet the strength specifications called for by the state," said attorney R. Robert Popeo."

so how long did it sit in the hot sun, and how much water did they add before it was placed?

96 posted on 08/11/2005 6:30:18 PM PDT by Slump Tester ( What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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I don't drive it enough to know which is better but I'll keep using I-95 to get a better idea of how it's working out.


97 posted on 08/11/2005 6:54:03 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
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To: NormsRevenge

BUMP!


98 posted on 08/11/2005 6:54:41 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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