For nearly a decade, traffic has been zipping through Boston's Big Dig tunnels, the nation's costliest highway project that has also left a gaping financial hole in the state's transportation budget ...
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed, crushing a car ...
Prosecutors will drop a manslaughter charge against the only company charged in the fatal Big Dig tunnel collapse after the epoxy maker agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit. Under the ...
BOSTON (AP) — The cost of the Big Dig, including interest on borrowing, has mushroomed to nearly $24.3 billion, strangling the state's ability to fund other critical transportation projects, a ...
The Big Dig is a disaster — always was, is now, and always will be. The Big Dig is the local version of the old fairy tale about the emperor’s new clothes. No one wants to admit the obvious. It cost ...
San Francisco engineering company Bechtel Corp. is partly to blame for a tunnel ceiling collapse that killed a woman inside Boston's Big Dig underground highway network a year ago, federal ...
If you've ever wondered why it is so difficult to build infrastructure in this country, why these projects take so much time and cost so much money, there's a podcast that can offer some clues. It's ...
Frederick Salvucci spent April 2, 1987, on the edge of his seat, a bottle of champagne at the ready. In Washington, senators were taking a final vote on whether to override a veto by President Reagan ...
Forty years ago, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis announced the start of a project that would become known as “The Big Dig,” the most expensive highway project in the nation’s history. (Fun fact ...
BOSTON – When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex and costliest highway ...
As investigators continue to find trouble spots in Boston's Big Dig highway project, concern is growing among taxpayers over who will pay to fix the problems. Gov. Mitt Romney (R) says he is appealing ...
For nearly a decade, traffic has been zipping through Boston's Big Dig tunnels, the nation's costliest highway project that has also left a gaping financial hole in the state's transportation budget ...