1. malcolm on July 11th, 2006 at 9:32 am
   

   WoW! 14,000,000,000 to take a leak!
   First!
2. StacyE on July 11th, 2006 at 9:55 am
   

   Amen about the jail time. I just moved from Boston in January to Dallas. I drove through that tunnel a lot to travel and pick people up and what have you. There always was water along the edges but you really do just assume that nothings going to happen while you’re traveling through.

   Those engineers / workers (some of whome drink at the bars in Fanheil Hall on lunch) should be punished.

   I am so sad about that poor person that died. But they’ll never quit working on that “project.” They don’t know what to do with all those jobs. And Massachusetts does not get rid of jobs. It’s a welfare state.
3. willsin on July 11th, 2006 at 9:58 am
   

   Today, I heard John Kerry say: I voted against the Big Dig, after I voted for the Big Dig.

   LOL
4. Robert on July 11th, 2006 at 10:11 am
   

   Well, I guess the terrorist now have an easier target to destroy. It sounds like it won’t take much of an explosion to flood the tunnel since it already leaks.
5. The Pine Blogger on July 11th, 2006 at 10:17 am
   

   2. Lived up there for a few years during its construction, so I’m familiar with the project as well.

   Also, I work up there several weeks each year. I fly in late at night, and everytime I try to go into the I93 Big Dig tunnel (which you exit from the connector tunnel that failed last night), I can’t because they are still working on it. It’s so frustrating because the “detour” ensures I have to pay Mass Pike tolls ($2) to get where I need to go.
6. cameraguy on July 11th, 2006 at 10:32 am
   

   If a giant boon-doggle federal project like this occurred in Texas, the idiot liberal media would have hounded Bush over it.

   But they never once even brought up the project during the national election with Kerry. They didn’t want to do anything that might hurt their socialist/communist candidate they supported.

   But Bush would have been tied directly with it….

   Fight leftist tyranny! Fight the liberal media!
7. vlou on July 11th, 2006 at 10:55 am
   

   #3
   John Kerry waffles on almost every issue…he can’t take a stand on anything…it’s a good thing he is not the President.
8. LTC on July 11th, 2006 at 11:39 am
   

   “…you don’t want to go there…You don’t want to go there…” - Bill Clinton
9. Rorschach on July 11th, 2006 at 11:41 am
   

   Seems I recall Mr. Comacho wanted to do the same thing here for I-45 between North Main and I-45 south.

   Can you imagine what would happen when Buffalo Bayou flooded? or an 18 wheeler with a tanker trailer full of gasoline crashed? everyone in the tunnel would be dead.
10. stomer on July 11th, 2006 at 11:41 am
    

    #6 Amen. Ditto!
11. TXAggie87 on July 11th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
    

    #9 Rorschach

    Just think. We could have our very own cave diving facility. With our water table, normal annual rain fall, and proximity to the gulf, aint enough pumps to keep that thing dry.
12. Rorschach on July 11th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
    

    #11, and given how good TXDoT is about cleaning out the drains, it wouldn’t matter if there were!

    I had a very long and detailed argument with him over at BlogHouston a while back (http://www.bloghouston.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1787)

    He never did realize just how insane this idea is.
13. gregg aka T-BONE on July 11th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
    

    Wasnt the Big Dig Teddy Kennedys baby? Kinda ironic how the female passenger gets killed and the male is able to climb out the window and escape. Where have i heard that before?

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