Big Dig Safety Review Finds Only 'Minor Flaws'

Gov. Mitt Romney releases an engineering review that finds Boston's Big Dig to be 'fundamentally safe' but recommends some repairs.

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November 20, 2006, 12:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"A comprehensive engineering review of Boston's highways, tunnels, and bridges, ordered after the fatal collapse of a tunnel ceiling in July, has found the road system to be 'fundamentally safe,' Governor Mitt Romney said yesterday. Romney's so-called 'stem to stern' safety review of the Big Dig system did find a variety of relatively minor flaws, including cracking concrete and water leaks near electrical equipment."

"The most serious flaws found to date are those that led to the tunnel ceiling collapse, which killed Milena Del Valle, a 38-year-old Jamaica Plain woman who was a passenger in a car en route to Logan International Airport....Romney said an important safeguard will be added when cellphone service is established in the I-93 and I-90 connector tunnels, allowing motorists to alert authorities to problems."

FULL STORY: Big Dig roads are safe, says Romney

Saturday, November 18, 2006 in The Boston Globe

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