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Tunnel Comes Tumbling down

Posted by Raven on July 11th, 2006

Bruce has all the latest details and political fall out on last night’s tragic tunnel collapse.

There was a caller to John Depetro Show on WRKO this afternoon who claimed to be a union worker who witnessed the installation of the anchor bolts used to hang the ceiling panels in the Big Dig tunnels. He stated that if some the workers drilling holes for the anchor bolts encountered reinforcing steel, they simply stopped drilling, cut the bolt to fit the hole, and set them in place, thereby drastically reducing the embedded length of the bolt.

In layman’s terms – that would be bad.

If this is proven to be true (and it would not shock me in the least), then this collapse would be anything but a fluke occurrence, and, in my opinion, the entire length of this ceiling system would be at imminent risk of failure.

And let the games begin in Boston. We haven’t heard the first of things yet.

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One Response to “Tunnel Comes Tumbling down”

  1. Jane Says:
    July 12th, 2006 at 10:06 pm

    The tunnel broke? Yes thats bad, haven’t they been building it for like years.

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