Secondly, this story is an attempt by the Boston Globe to shift the blame for the Big Dig fiasco to the engineers and the people who designed the structure.
The Globe does not want to implicate the Unions and the political corruption class in Mass (Democrats).
I lived in Boston in the pre-Big Dig era. Back then, they were estimating the cost of the project (this was in the late 1980's) and a friend of mine who worked for MIT Research Engineering (MITRE) told me the project would cost twenty fold that estimate because it would take place in Massachusetts - a sinkhole of corruption that even people on this board cannot fathom.
Boston and the state saw Federal Dollars gift wrapped in a bow when the project was approved.
Everyone got in line and had their hand out for "their share."
The Union bosses ruled this project from start to finish.
