Chunks of Concrete Fall onto Route 85 in Southborough - Is this Big Dig II?
By Claudette Millette, Buyer, Broker - Metrowest Mass
(The Buyers' Counsel)
Chunks of Concrete Fall onto Route 85 in Southborough - Is this Big Dig II? Last night police were called after chunks of concrete fell onto the roadway on Route 85 in Southborough. They seem to have fallen from the Mass Pike overpass. Several drivers reported that "brick-sized" pieces of concrete were strewn all over the travel lanes causing a one-mile stretch of the road to be temporarily closed. This is a bit reminiscent of the catastrophic events that occurred following the construction of the "Big Dig" central artery project in Boston. We all recall the 2006 collapse of the ceiling of the Interstate 90 tunnel which killed a motorist. That incident was blamed on faulty ceiling panels that had been constructed using an inferior epoxy. The Big Dig turned out to be the most expe...
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