Big Dig Fiasco

Boston's Big Dig tunnel has to be one of the worst examples of publich works in the last century. There have been many scandals throughout the decades from $900 hammers sold to the pentagon to War profiteers in Iraq to War Profiteers in World War II and the commissions established by Truman before his presidency to wrangle them in line.
Boston's Big Dig has gone far over budget and far over its time line and spawned much derision and criticism since its inception.

Today, news reports that originally identified over 60 concrete panels with loose bolts, like the panels that fell and killed a female driver were actually counted to low. The figure has been revised to a number over 200 panels. The Governor of Massachusetts has taken control over the project dismissing his own governmental group responsible for watching the project.

The project has long been rumored to be victim of political corruption, contractor corruption and even claims of organized crime involvement at all levels.
In fairness it was a massive undertaking as tunnels go, nothing like the Chunnel project from Britain to France, but digging a tunnel so near swamp land is bound to have its own problems.