Bechtel's Big Bill For Big Dig

The San Francisco Chronicle offers a lucid run-down on Massachusetts' efforts to recover money from Big Dig cost overruns.

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September 20, 2003, 5:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"A state panel investigating cost overruns on the $14.6 billion project has notified San Francisco's Bechtel and its Big Dig partner, Parsons Brinckerhoff, that it wants some of the cash spent on the project returned... For years, the Big Dig has tangled Boston traffic and Massachusetts politics... They have done all this at a price, recently surpassing $14 billion. Estimates in 1982 placed the project's final cost at $2.6 billion."

Thanks to UC Berkeley ITS Friday headlines

FULL STORY: Big Dig bill for Bechtel

Thursday, September 18, 2003 in The San Francisco Chronicle

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