Big Dig problem known in 1999 - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com
My Stress Analysis prof told us at the beginning of last semester that he's not afraid to fail us because he drives over bridges too. Well, people also drive through tunnels and perhaps someone should have failed them.
My major question is why the hell they need 3 ton concrete slabs for the "dropped" (pardon the expression) ceiling? I understand the ceiling is present to allow for airflow, but why concrete? Couldn't they have used like, extruded plastic panels? Fine, perhaps they need to be able to walk on it for inspection or whatever. They could put stamped metal sheet over the plastic to carry the load of personnel! I wouldn't be surprised at all if further infidelities with the Big Dig's concrete supplier are uncovered in the upcoming investigations.
I heard someone suggest on the radio that whoever gets jail time for the big dig be put into a leaking jail cell. I can't find a link to the story, but I read somewhere that engineers had predicted ~500,000 gallons/day to be pumped out of the Big Dig, just because it's basically on the ocean and well below the water table, and it's such a big project. But in reality they were pumping 3 (or thirty, perhaps) million gallons out every day. Whoops!
The only good things I've seen come out of the Big Dig is the new bridge and a sign, which unforunately I'm unable to find a picture of, which said "Rome wasn't built in a day. If it was, we would have hired their contractors"
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