Chez Chesler

As someone once explained (in the context of why you should strive to release completely bug-free software to the customers), if you're sitting in a restaurant and you see a cockroach walk across the table, you don't say "Oh, there is THE cockroach", you say "This place is infested." So now that we know that every epoxied bolt into the ceiling has been or will be re-inspected, are we satisfied that now we know what was THE problem with the CA/T project? I don't know how to build roads, and certainly not how to build the Big Dig, but I'd have hoped that the folks doing it did know, and did think about all the constraints, like making sure that what is supposed to be up stays up, but also that what is supposed to be down stays down and flat and dry, and ventilated, and signed, and cable-stayed, and whatever else subtle is required of a road. Obviously that wasn't the case.