Romney orders shutdown of TWT

[TriSec]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/07/20/massachusetts_governor_orders_shutdown_of_ted_williams_tunnel/

BOSTON --Gov. Mitt Romney on Thursday ordered an immediate shutdown of eastbound lanes the Ted Williams Tunnel, days after 12 tons of ceiling tiles fell from a connecting tunnel, crushing a motorist.

The Ted Williams Tunnel, a key feature in the city's massive Big Dig project, links South Boston with Logan International Airport. The eastbound tunnel had been closed to the general public since the July 10 accident but open to emergency vehicles and public buses going to the airport.

Romney said state engineers had found two bolts that appeared to have slipped 1/2-inch and 1 inch in one ceiling panel. A special truck -- which expands to 11 1/2-feet wide, blocking the two travel lanes -- has been brought in to shore up the ceiling. He said engineers were working to come up with plan to reinforce the panel and allow traffic to pass.

"It is perhaps an overreaction but we want to err on the side of public safety," Romney said at a news conference in which he said he was overruling an earlier finding by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority that the tunnel was safe.

[hippiechick]

1. I might be late getting into this, but ...

... I read on an entirely different board that Bechtel had about $12M in federal money for the Big Dig.

Truth?

If so, more proof how totally corrupt and larcenous the GOP is - funneling money to their cronies for half-assed jobs that're putting peoples lives at risk and obliterating the national infrastructure while fattening their own pockets. Ratfuckers.

:mad:

[bluestateguy]

2. All of the Big Dig fuckups have been under Republican governorships in MA

nt.

[KamaAina]

3. Romney IS a TWiT

From Day One -- Hour One, really -- this has been all about Mitt promoting his quixotic presidential campaign. I can almost imagine him jumping for joy when he heard about the accident. "Are you sure it was in the Big Dig? Are you SURE? Oh, boy! Uh, I mean, oh, boy am I sorry for those poor people..."