Big Dig - One of Engineering's Greatest Mistakes?

Enggirl1 writes "Design News discusses Boston's Big Dig and begs the question - is it one of engineering's greatest failures? The article reveals that forums and blogs are popping up all over the Internet as vehicles for engineers and contractors to discuss, under the guise of anonymity, their skepticism, thoughts and reactions to one of the biggest infrastructure failures in the news today." From the article: "One blogger, whose profile notes that he is an ICC Reinforced Concrete Special Inspector and an ICC Pre-stressed Concrete Special Inspector, among other specialties, says he has nearly 20 years of experience performing both placement and post-placement inspections of rebar, post-tensioning systems, concrete, masonry, etc. He says if structural engineers who specify epoxy for dowels and the like believe that the work is being done correctly then they live in a world unfamiliar to him."

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Iraq war side effects

[CosmeticLobotamy]

Reading the article, I read the 14.6 billion dollar cost and thought, "Oh, I thought this thing was a lot of money." Then I remembered that is a lot of money. Not Bush-bashing or anything at the moment, but it's pretty impressive what the war can do to your concept of what is and isn't a lot of money being blown through by a government.

But then I'm assuming that's mostly not federal money, which would make it a really, really lot of money. But still.

what do you mean slashdot?

[minus_273]

Right here everyone talks about how great it is.

Thanks Michael Dukakis and John Kerry! money well spent.