While the MBTA has released much information about the halted project, some crucial backstory remains unknown. We need new ways to talk about public works.
There is one bright spot in the December “termination for convenience” of the main contracting joint venture on the Boston area’s Green Line Extension light-rail project: No one is pointing fingers at the contractor as the key culprit behind the project’s soaring cost, which currently is $700 million to $1 billion over its roughly $2-billion budget.
Randall L. Barr ranks the $299-million first phase of the overhaul of the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry linking Mexico and California—the world’s busiest border crossing—as a standout among his projects during a nearly 42-year career with contractor Hensel Phelps.
Why should the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey be trusted to oversee the $20 billion construction of a new Hudson River rail tunnel, one of the largest infrastructure projects the region has ever seen?
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