It doesn't help that US public transit agencies consistently fail to follow worldwide best practices for both maintenance and expansion, resulting in them being inefficient money pits. Fixing infrastructure is fine and it's fine to pay for it; but the public is somewhat right to get fed up when projects cost an order of magnitude more money than comparably developed countries. It also doesn't help with the fractured nature of how we fund and operate public transit. So much missed opportunity here...
There was a tunnel in Boston that had a steel ceiling collapse around that time frame.
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I don't really care about the issue at the federal level, when that is largely related to funding. My main issue is with state agencies that become de facto political patronage positions that have hollowed out any expertise in actually doing their job forcing them to rely on expensive consultants and ineffective bicameral state legislatures that can't provide effective oversight or pass laws (and on that latter note - we should really abolish bicameral state governments in favor of unicameral systems; there is no rationale reason to have split houses at the state level beyond creating more veto points).
I thought it was strictly the epoxy that failed? Isn't that when they discovered that epoxy under constant tension always fails because it stretches?
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