Boondockle? Please elaborate.
“This tunnel will be a bargain”—John Kerry
The MA Big Dig project went way over budget costing people all over the country. Tunnel collapses, etc Final cost $15 billion
>>Leave it to Massachusetts, though, to turn the Big Dig’s reputation from resounding success to humiliating failure—first in terms of the project’s cost. From day one—even after accounting for politicians’ erring on the low side to gain public approval—the Big Dig was fated to cost more than its 1982 price tag of $2.6 billion.
Boondoggle: A boondoggle is a project that is considered a useless waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy or political motivations. The term arose from a 1935 New York Times report that more than $3 million had been spent on recreational activities for the jobless as part of the New Deal.
A perfect word to describe the big dig.