The Outraged Liberal reads today's Globe article on Bechtel's apparent non-concern about I-90 connector bolts and concludes: Looks like Mitt Romney got the wrong scalp:
... Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the well-connected management company designed to oversee the project opted to save money rather than push for safety. Under the oversight of Kerasiotes. And Cellucci.
Seems Bechtel is worried that the tests on the I-90 connector bolts might cause "not readily apparent" problems with the bolts. Which apparently are different from the not readily apparent problems that caused Milena Del Valle's death, Jay Fitzgerald writes.
Beth on Grand Mental Station: How do these guys sleep at night?
... Give me a goddamned break.
Kimberly Atkins has the details of Romney's formal effort to remove Matt Amorello from office - which also includes a suit by three Romney appointees to the turnpike board against Amorello.
Spatch: Romney to Amorello: It's on, bitch:
... Too bad A. Romney's looking right into the eyes of 2008 when he bares his teeth, and B. someone had to die for the shakeup (shakedown?) to happen.
John Daley comes up with a much cheaper system to replace the $200-million video system that allegedly didn't record the Del Valle tragedy.
This one, Exit 24 from I-90 west to 93, had been a route around the closed deadly tunnel. Even more delays for commuters - and potential headaches for residents in South Boston, where surface roads will be used as a detour:
This traffic diversion is expected to cause significant delays and traffic concerns in the South Boston community.
There's a whole 'nother world westa Worcester. And many folks out there see things a bit differently than we do. For example, even our local conservative blogs have yet to note, as have several conservative blogs in the heartland, that Ronald Reagan vetoed the initial appropriation for the Big Dig.
Back in January, 2003, Steve Garfield did a video report on Ravi Jain becoming the first civilian to drive through the connector tunnel. Like Melina Del Valle, Jain is also from Jamaica Plain.
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