Adhesive blamed in Boston Big Dig tunnel collapse
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U.S. transportation investigators on Tuesday blamed the fatal collapse in Boston's Big Dig tunnel last year on a ceiling adhesive that was not strong enough, and determined contractors and authorities probably could have taken steps to avert the disaster.
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Contractors told the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority of Big Dig tunnel leaks 34 months before MTA admitted knowing, the Boston Globe reports.
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BOSTON -- Boston's Big Dig has sprung a big leak.Twenty years and $14.6 billion after its conception, the most ambitious public works project in the nation -- an unprecedented effort to route an unsightly highway deep beneath the central city and replace it with a green ribbon of parks --...
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The lead contractor for Massachusetts' "Big Dig" tunnel and roadway project is close to reaching a $399 million settlement with the state after a fatal accident in 2006, the Boston Globe reported on Wednesday.
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Boston drivers may be facing weeks of detours as engineers work to resolve safety problems in a section of the Big Dig tunnel system where a woman died when concrete ceiling panels collapsed on her car.
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The company overseeing the construction of the beleaguered Big Dig said Monday that repairs to fix widespread leaks would take months, not years, and denounced public officials for rushing to judgment on the &#36;14.6 billion project.
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Seven years before falling concrete crushed a motorist to death inside one of Boston's Big Dig tunnels, a safety officer warned that the bolts could not possibly hold the heavy ceiling panels, according to a bluntly worded memo leaked to a newspaper.
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The Curse of the Bambino is dead. Not the Curse of the Big Dig. By Steven Senne, AP. The Big Dig, the costliest highway project in US history, is a series of tunnels and
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Bomb units scrambled Wednesday to investigate four suspicious devices reported almost simultaneously throughout Boston. The reports forced the temporary shutdowns of part of an interstate, a key inbound roadway and a bridge between Boston and Cambridge.
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A memo written by a Big Dig safety officer warning superiors at his construction company that parts of a tunnel ceiling could collapse appears to be a fake, the company said Wednesday.
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More than a decade after thousands of construction workers began flocking to the Big Dig, Boston's $14.6 billion roadway project is winding down -- and so are the jobs.
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An apparent utility malfunction on   Thursday caused an underground explosion that forced the   evacuation of several high-rise buildings in central   Philadelphia, Fox television news reported.
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DANVERS, Mass. - Chemical vapor that accumulated inside a paint and ink factory fueled the huge explosion that leveled the building and damaging dozens of surrounding homes last fall, according to a preliminary conclusion by federal investigators.
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Tunnel experts have discovered a second section of the Big Dig highway tunnel system under downtown Boston with a defect similar to one that caused a major leak in September.
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Gov. Mitt Romney said Monday that tests show more than 1,100 bolt assemblies that used epoxy and more than 300 other areas in a Big Dig connector tunnel where the ceiling collapsed are unreliable.
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BOSTON, Oct. 4 -- A special grand jury has been convened to investigate the construction and design of Big Dig tunnels as part of a criminal probe into a tunnel ceiling collapse that killed a Boston woman.
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Matthew Amorello's final weeks as head of the agency that oversees the Big Dig highway project was marked by criticism from the governor, cost overruns, contractors charged with providing substandard materials and, finally, a nightmare: falling concrete panels that killed a woman.