Gov. Romney Shuts Down Big Dig Tunnel

AP/My Way ^ | 07/20/06 | AP/My Way

[raccoonradio]

BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Mitt Romney ordered an immediate shutdown of the Ted Williams Tunnel's eastbound lanes Thursday as the investigation continued into a deadly collapse of ceiling panels in a connecting tunnel.

No reasons for the closure were immediately released. The governor has been overseeing the inspections of the Big Dig tunnels since shortly after the fatal accident July 10 that killed Milena Del Valle, 38, as she and her husband drove to the airport.

The Ted Williams Tunnel was a key part of the city's massive Big Dig project and leads from Boston to Logan International Airport. The Interstate 90 tunnel where a woman was crushed by 12 tons of falling cement ceiling panels leads to the Ted Williams Tunnel.

[tophat9000]

If any one did not know "The Big Dig" was a pork barrel boondoggle of epic proportion...When the dam thing starts collapsing right after it is built sure should tell then now.... It is the "Icing on the cake"....

[Red Badger]

The Tunnel is aptly named.........

[raccoonradio]

Now they're complaining that instead of wasting money on this, we should have been pouring it into mass transit.

[Minutemen]

You mean you need more of a reason than it collapsing and killing someone?

Now, now, let's be Politically Correct: "It allegedly fell"

[raccoonradio]

>>a pork barrel boondoggle of epic proportion.

"I told you so...this doesn't pass the sniff test"--the late Jerry Williams, longtime talk radio host (enemy of Dukakis, etc...remember The Governors? Jerry, Howie Carr, and
Barb Anderson...

[Little Bill]

Normally I would say, "Sick of all this S##t, Vote Republican." In this State the rats and the pubbies share a portion of the blame. If Weld was not a typical Brahman pubbie, rat in sheep's clothing, and Argio wasn't a moron, Swifty, who knows, we could be a viable party in this State.

[BigFinn]

As smart as they are they will probably throw a few more billion at it. Yeah, that's the ticket...

[Calvin Locke]

That is so wrong. But funny.

When avoidable stuff happens, where the heck is Darwin? That is, the designer/manufacturer/installer/political
hack/lawyer etc., is supposed to be the one that is hurt by the incompetence and/or corruption.

No wonder Darwin is coming under fire...

[Republicus2001]

a tunnel going under an ocean harbor is LEAKING? yikes! How much will auto insurance now rise in Boston zip codes? ... or will they spread the liability over all American policy-holders? Phony immigrants need not worry as only insured drivers will be directly affected...

[Artemis Webb]

"Dispute over Ted Williams Tunnel finally comes to a head........"

bad
bad
bad :)

[raccoonradio]

>>a tunnel going under an ocean harbor is LEAKING

Other tunnels don't have this problem. Wonder if The Learning Channel will re-air that documentary on the modern marvel,
the Big Dig? Slurry walls, slurry walls, the only thing slurry is Ted K's voice after some Chivas.

>>Phony immigrants

Mike Dukakis, the man who gave fake social security numbers to illegals so they can collect welfare, is now out in the public eye again, blasting those Wascally Wepublican governors who came after him.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Dispute over Ted Williams Tunnel finally comes to a head........

Oh...that was cold....

[Bigh4u2]

I guess that means the woman is 'allegedly' dead then.

I always knew that this PC crap was gonna kill someone someday.

[Red Badger]

Not as cold as Ted.......

[IamConservative]

Who's paying for all this...got a mirror?

Perhaps this will help. Think of Hillary and Schmuck Chumer complaining about all the fed tax revenue New York generates that does not return to the state. Instead, it is going to Ted Kennedy's second cousin's brother-in-law's construction company that charged $67 a hole to embed bolts in epoxy. But, they didn't epoxy 25% of the bolts so they could embezzle enough money to pay Kennedy's Chivas Regal scotch bribe.

[Jimnorwellwarren]

Jerry Willams usually didn't pass the sniff test, especially after getting his ass periodically roasted when he debated Avi Nelson...

[tophat9000]

Well in reality this was just a slow motion version of Katrina/New Orleans/Louisiana local corruption and wast of Federal provided Pork/money that they will not be able to "delegate the blame up" to being Bush's Fault...

[raccoonradio]

But during his later years, as a "populist", Jer' did pretty well in getting people mobilized and spreading the word nationwide about the Duke. "I'm Not Boring"...

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Liberals who brought us the Big Dig want the same people running national health care and investing for our retirement. Maybe there was a time in the past, before total sloth and corruption set in, when government could handle these types of projects - Hoover Dam, TVA, Manhattan project - but that time is gone.

See link below on best explanation on fundamental problem. IMO

The Inside Dirt

[NormsRevenge]

Relatives of Milena Mora Vargas Delvalle, of Costa Rica, who was killed when concrete ceiling panels fell onto her car in one of Boston's Big Dig tunnels late Monday night, attend the Morales funeral in Moravia, Wednesday July 19, 2006 in Costa Rica. (AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera)

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The old style ceiling bolt in a Big Dig tunnel is seen on the left and the replacement style on the right, as workers make repairs and upgrades to a tunnel in the Big Dig project, Tuesday, July 18, 2006, in Boston. Two Big Dig tunnels were closed for inspections and repairs after 12 tons of ceiling panels fell, killing 38-year-old Milena Del Valle as she and her husband drove through the tunnel July 10 on their way to the airport. (AP Photo/David L Ryan, Pool)

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A woman stands next to a portion of the ceiling which collapsed on a car inside the Big Dig tunnel on Interstate 90 killing a woman in South Boston, July 11, 2006. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)