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When things go sideways in the O'Neill Tunnel
By adamg on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 12:44pm
Katherine Bragg is among the drivers not going anywhere on I-93 north due to a truck turned sideways in the tunnel.
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Is there ice in the tunnel?
If so, how did it get there? Leaks?
Water spray from passing vehicles
Cold concrete pavement. Truck perhaps going a bit too fast for the curve.
You do the math.
That's probably what happened.
Operating at too great a speed for existing conditions is how most accidents occur, anyway. That truck driver obviously. wasn't playing it too smart.
That's probably what happened.
Operating at too great a speed for existing conditions is how most accidents occur, anyway. That truck driver obviously. wasn't playing it too smart.
Too bad the MassDOT guy
dumped all his salt on the Zakim Bridge.
No problem
He'll get that turned around any minute now...
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Gonna have to learn to read maps, read signs, slow down, and actually drive your rig.
Mr. Powers might be able to help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGiQOCX9UbM
Just as long as this isn't the same Mr. Powers
that supplied the glue for the tunnel ceiling bolts:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HAR0702.pdf
Ah yes
They guy who supplied the glue that they ordered from him. The ordering party screwed it up, not him. But, since he had not donated to her campaigns, Choakley went after him like a rabid lemur and scapegoated him.
Read the NTSB report
The ordering party may have messed up, but so did the guy that supplied the glue - as he didn't clearly state the limitations of the two types of available glue in the product spec sheets.
However, the true blame for the collapse lies with the people who designed and approved the tunnel ceiling. Treating 800 pound concrete slabs like a suspended drop ceiling you'd install in a man cave is not exactly the best engineering decision, as the unfortunate events of July 10th, 2006 proved.
tunnel issues
got stuck in that mess when coming from the Ted Williams Tunnel into the tunnel that connects to 93. They had the ramp/tunnel that feeds into 93 North closed off and traffic coming at us - coming the wrong way down that tunnel - to hang a tight right at the split to go back up onto 93 South. What a fun time!