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SUBJECTS
Boston Central Artery Tunnel Safety at Risk 100s Leaks Bureaucracy C

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0504 - Summary/Objective
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050501 - Follow up ref SDS 2 0000, ref SDS 1 CS94,
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050503 - Challenge of good management documeting the work showing alignment
050504 - with requirements continues to grow.
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0508 - Progress
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050901 - Boston's Big Dig Report Indicates Safety at Risk Due to Cover-up
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050903 - Article published by Reuters reports an independent review has
050904 - recently withdrawn a previous favorable analysis of safety.
050905 - ref OF 1 0001
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050907 -         Boston 'Big Dig' Safety Report Sparks Outrage
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050910 - Evidently a lot of leaks have been found in the tunnel.  A report in
050911 - November 2004 said that leaks were sending millions of gallons of
050912 - water into the tunnel system below Boston. ref OF 1 00FO  This
050913 - condition was dismissed as non-threatening in the earlier report.
050914 - ref OF 1 006P  On 050309 the independent enginner now says safety
050915 - cannot be assumed, because additional defects in tunnel wall have been
050916 - discovered, and the contracting agency has withheld documents needed
050917 - for verification of safety. ref OF 1 008P
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050920 - The $14B project has had many problems due to traffic snarls,
050921 - political scandal, and engineering errors causing billions of dollars
050922 - in cost overruns. ref OF 1 JU9H
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050925 - The governor of Massechesstts has called for head of the contracting
050926 - agency to resign.  During a news conference today, the governer blamed
050927 - a "culture of obstruction and cover-up" at the Turnpike Authority and
050928 - again targeted Amorello. ref OF 1 G44G
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050931 - "Culture of cover-up" sounds like the problems that plague NASA,
050932 - reported by the agency chief in testimony to Congress on 040826.
050933 - ref SDS 2 1G9L
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