UPDATED (07/21/06): The Washington Post has coverage of Romney’s response to the Big Crumble (hat tip to Tom Bevan at the RCP Blog), while the Boston Globe does the same (hat tip to Kathryn Lopez at NRO). ..bfw.. UPDATED (still 07/20/06): Gov. Romney has ordered the eastbound lanes of the Ted Williams Tunnel shut down, […]
UPDATE (07/18/06): It’s unclear from this new article what the relationship is between the 1,100 questionable “hangers” and the 1,400+ “bad bolts” mentioned below — but in either case, one gets the sense that the “Big Crumble” was literally an accident waiting to happen, and tragically the first such accident was fatal. Hat tip again […]
Gerry Weinberg, who has been a leading light in software engineering for nearly 40 years, once famously remarked, “If builders build buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” Up in Boston, it appears that the woodpeckers have struck, with tragic results. The Big Dig, as it […]
