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Big Dig equipped with killer safety rails

The Globe documents the death of seven motorists - "most of them gruesomely dismembered" - due to the railings intended to keep maintenance workers from falling into traffic.

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which I suppose is a subcategory of 'motorists', but most people won't think that way.

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Thanks for the plug, Adam.

And Ron has a point on 'motorist.' The default definition in most people's head is a person in a car. I was trying to come up with a word that encompassed people in cars and motorcyclists, and ended up with motorist. I didn't want to use two words. I think motorist works fine, tho, and it's clear from the 1st sentence on it that the story is about cars and motorcycles.

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The deaths are of inexperienced motorcycle riders and unseatbelted occupants of cars going too fast.

Except for the cop, who was reportedly going only 35. But who filed the report?

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Reading the article, it appears to be a similar issue to how the luge athlete was killed : vertical metal posts placed too close to a speedway

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will be on why the overhead signs on the southbound Zakim Bridge that were destroyed in March of 2007 when a truck with a raised dump body hit them have never been replaced.

The overhead signs in question were advance signs for the Government Center/Callahan Tunnel, Purchase Street, and I-90/Albany Street exits. IMO, not exactly "unnecessary" information that drivers don't need to know about.

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Massachusetts: Government/Business/ Labor Oversight This blog is dedicated to all Massachuestts citizens striving for Government, Businesss, and Labor Accountabiity and Oversight in the continual battle against.waste, fraud, and abuse.

FRONT PAGE STORY IN BOSTON GLOBE ABOUT LAWSUIT CONCERNING ALLEGED UNSAFE TRAGIC GUARDRAILS ON THE BOSTON CENTRAL ARTERY PROJECT BIG DIG…THE MOST EXPENSIVE TRANSPORTATION PROJECT IN THE WORLD RIDDLED WITH WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE

I cannot believe this news story. The Boston Globe management and several reporters have been enablers for no accountability and oversight on the Big Dig from start to finish.

When Globe Reporters such as Peter Howe, Charles Sennott, and John Coughlin tried to report on inefficiency, waste, and mismanagement on the Big Dig, they were dismissed, demeaned, or intimidated. Conscientious Citizens that pleaded for and presented evidence received a similar fate. Even the highly respected Washington based group Project on Government Oversight led by Scott Amey suffered the same fate. The Special Interests were listened to and damage control was the philosophy by so many at the Boston Globe. As former Globe editorial writer Jon Keller said, both Boston newspaper editorial boards were “in the tank”.

The international monument for the most expensive flawed no bid cost plus transportation project in the world that went from an original cost of $2.3 billion to $23+Billion riddled with inefficiency, waste and mismanagement with little or no oversight lives on.
http://oversightwatchmassachusetts.blogspot.com

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