Posted on 07/17/2006 12:09:58 AM PDT by Panerai
It certainly was "spec'd out the wazoo", but that doesn't mean anything in Crookachusetts. Everyone is dirty here, always have been.
Question for Congress: You all are always wanting hearings for every flipping thing. Where are the hearings on THIS?!
I live in Boston, and it seems to me that about 5 or 6 years ago (when the Ted Williams tunnel was being built, as a matter of fact), I happened to know or hear of several people who wanted home renovations done, but were having a terrible time finding a contractor to do it -- everyone was tied up in the Big Dig (which probably paid better). It seems at least possible that the Big Dig was hiring a lot of workers and/or small firms that didn't have the background or experience for a massive highway project but hired them anyway because they'd already hired all the workers with the experience.
Even if they had hearings, nothing would come out of them except a few sacrifical lambs 'they' wanted to get rid of, anyway.
I'm out of here and heading to town for a personal experience.
Later folks, unless a road falls on me...
Heheh-----nice zinger. Paleos rock.
They? A lot of that came through the federal government, so WE paid for much of it.
I dont know but this dig but it sounds like they were cutting corners to me. In CA they know that earthquakes happen. I am not sure the one building this tunnel considered it a problem.
Actually, I think they mentioned that the bolts were not as long or deeply sunk as they were supposed to be.
So, what are ya...anti-Uniion?
"Interesting that you don't mention the engineering company that came up with the design. Do you think union workers designed the tunnel?"
The State is now doing pull tests on the anchor bolts. I wonder how many pull tests they did when the bolts were installed? Only a person with an agenda would lay all the blame for the BigDig's woes on the unions.
Good point. Also, how many pull tests did the enginering firm do? Didn't they go along as the tunnel was being built and verify their engineering specs?
Only a person with an agenda would lay all the blame for the BigDig's woes on the unions.
There is a lot of that on FR.
They actually hold very well, if the surrounding concrete is properly made, cured and surface-prepared, if the epoxy itself is properly mixed, applied and cured, and if the application they're used in is a good design. It appears that some or all of these requirements were not met in these tunnels.
Oh, and it also helps if the epoxy is actually used to anchor the bolts. I read that in some bolt locations there was no epoxy found.
The Big Dig? You mean they're going to disinterr Mary Jo??
Wait til the Swimmer hears about this!
Yeh, that's a good deal! And if you believe the 15 billion figure you'll believe anything. Massachusetts is the king of graft and corruption, bribes, pay-offs and bagmen. Just ask Whitey Bulger or his crooked Boston FBI handlers. Oh yeh, Whitey's on the lam. I forgot.
That was the whole reason only union labor was allowed on the Big Pig project. They had to make sure the quality stunk!
I want to see big dig contractors and MA politicians frogmarched out of the Federal Courthouse in Boston.
That is because Teddy is on Summer Bender...oh I mean summer break.
Believe it or not, in the NCMC (NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex), there are numerous places where large cracks in the tunnel walls of the mountain are fillec with expoxy. I was amazed when I was stationed there in 1971 to see a place with such a reputation being held together with epoxy....
Who says crime doesn't pay? In Boston and Mass in general it pays very well... what's a negligent homocide here and there, as long as we keep sending drunk Kennedy and traitor Kerry back to the Senate.. all is well with the world.....
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