Massachusetts seeks Big Dig refund

Yahoo news ^ | 3-18-06 | Reuters

[george76]

Massachusetts' attorney general is demanding that contractors refund $108 million for poor work on Boston's "Big Dig," which is the biggest public works project in U.S. history and has been plagued by leaks and delays.

Attorney General Tom Reilly's office plans to sue Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff and other companies if the two sides do not reach an agreement over some 200 complaints of shoddy work in putting a major highway running through downtown Boston underground...

Costs for building the 7.8 mile underground roadway through Boston ballooned from under $3 billion to the current $14.6 billion.

[Clara Lou]

LOL. Meaningless gesture that will come to nothing,as the attorney general well knows.

[RKV]

Is this a grandstand play to cover up government complicity in this screw-up or what? So you have never heard of a company low-balling the bid to win the contract and then getting well on the change orders?

[NonValueAdded]

What does it matter, it soon will be under water according to the junior Senator. Stock it with fish, its time is up!

[george76]

Jobs for life for the unions.

[george76]

[Cicero]

Most likely most of the contractors and subcontractors in question are nephews of the politicians who ran this scam. Tom Reilly is probably suing a couple of his own nephews if he follows the usual pattern for road work in Massachusetts. Yes, it's an empty gesture.

He is shocked, shocked, that his nephews have cheated on their contract.

I lived in Massachusetts for many years. Route 128 was a permanent scam. Friends and relatives of the politicians would block off a lane, park a bunch of wrecked trucks and backhoes on it, and they would sit there for months and years, collecting daily fees for work not done.

[george76]

Are the tunnels still leaking ?

[jiggyboy]

It leaks like hell all over the place, still isn't done...yeah a 1%-3% discount is about right. Hope the contractor's kids don't go without food.

[Calvin Locke]

Meaningless gesture

Yahoo or Reilly? Nothing about Reilly running for Dem candidate for Governor, or did he drop out over his interference
in an underage DUI deaths investigation and his choice of a Lt. Gov, naturalized, of color, running mate that's a tax deadbeat?

How about his failure to pursue the politically connected subcontractors that actually did the crappy work?

[facedown]

Massachusetts seeks Big Dig refund

Big Louie says "Fuggeddaboutid".

[P.O.E.]

Want voters want, voters get.

[satchmodog9]

Somehow we will see Kapka(sp) and Bid Dig get tied to Bush. This is two stories in three days. I smell the beginnings of the next fabricated Bush scandal.

[dfwgator]

The contractor's credo: "When you see the light at the end of the tunnel, make more tunnel."

[george76]

New Orleans of the North ?

[BlessedBeGod]

Only $108 million?

ROFLMHO!

[george76]

Bid was $3 billion to the current $14.6 billion...

[patriot_wes]

"I lived in Massachusetts for many years. Route 128 was a permanent scam. Friends and relatives of the politicians would block off a lane, park a bunch of wrecked trucks and backhoes on it, and they would sit there for months and years, collecting daily fees for work not done."

In Massachusetts?... NO!...NO I SAY - I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!

[george76]

“Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

— Ronald Reagan

[BJungNan]