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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."
frosy pisst!
The Big Dig is a lot like my asshole: Severe leakage in multiple places on a daily basis.
Please mod the parent down, I am tired of these posts every time someone says "begs the question." In case you English snobs have not realized, "begs the question" is used much, much more often in the "incorrect" usage than the "correct" one. By most definitions that means it is actually correct. English is a constantly changing language, so what was wrong yesterday may be right today.
As the last phases are completed -- the cleanup of the old site -- Boston becomes one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Nice use of weasel-words. For those who missed it, the use of the future tense is because this hasn't even started yet, and at this point, it looks like they never will.
It was typically corrupt on a scale only an eastern (or European) city could manage, it was over budget and time on an epic scale -- but did anyone really expect otherwise? Someone really screwed up on these bolts. They'll get fixed, the lawsuits will settle, and in the meant time this project will be the pride of Boston for many years to come.
Yeah, that sounds like Taxachusetts through and through. Proud of massive corruption, massive waste of federal money (you didn't think Massachusetts was going to pay for that, did you?), and massive waste of time.
In the future, Massachusetts might want to look into something called "mass transit" because, unlike most of the rest of the United States, Massachusetts does have a population density similar to most of Europe.