Big Dig Contractor Preemptively Blames Others for Future Collapses

Just in case the prospect of death and destruction at the airport weren't enough, there's more news today in the ongoing saga of the route to the airport here in Boston. Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the contractor overseeing the Big Dig, has now announced that the bolts holding up ceiling panels in the Ted Williams tunnel - the ones that haven't already given out and caused a fatal ceiling collapse - may not be good for the long haul because the state's recent safety tests put too much load on the bolts. Color Bostonist cynical (and we're not alone in feeling this way), but when the same people who failed to provide a non-lethal tunnel say that the same thing that already killed one person may happen again and when it does it won't be their fault, we're more than a little bit skeptical. We'll just keep using the Callahan Tunnel for the time being, thank you very much.

Photo: Now that you have to be at the airport two hours early and the Ted Williams tunnel remains questionable, why not treat your evening flight as an excuse to spend a leisurely afternoon in East Boston? For a tunnel-free trip, go from Charlestown to Everett to Chelsea to East Boston, and stop at La Chiva for lunch.