Boston's Big Dig: 700 Leaks They Kept Secret (Part 2 of 3)

Boston's Big Dig faced massive budget concealment and structural leaks before a fatal collapse. Learn about the secret cost overruns, concrete fraud, and hundreds of hidden leaks that plagued the most expensive highway project in US history, leading to the tragic 2006 ceiling failure. New stories every Tuesday and Friday. Want more on why big projects go wrong? Listen to "How Big Things Get Done" by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner, free with an Audible trial: https://link.amazon/B02A9dSa8 Support the channel on Patreon:   / toofartoreturn   As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Part 2 of 3: "The Big Dig" Watch the full series:    • The Big Dig: Full Documentary Series   Previous: Part 1, Boston's Big Dig: The $14 Billion Secret Plan (Part 1 of 3) -    • Boston's Big Dig: The $14 Billion Secret P...   Next: Part 3, Boston's Big Dig: The Fraud No One Went to Jail For (Part 3 of 3) -    • Boston's Big Dig: The Fraud No One Went to...   CHAPTERS 0:00 Concrete Fraud and Budget Hikes 1:04 The History of Concealment 3:40 Seven Hundred Leaks 6:38 Aggregate Industries Investigation 9:10 The Fatal Ceiling Collapse 12:08 A Legacy of Failure HOW THIS VIDEO WAS MADE Researched and written from the sources listed below. Narration uses a synthetic text-to-speech voice. Some scenes are AI-generated reconstructions made for illustration; they are not historical photographs or footage. Archive photographs are credited below. SOURCES "Ceiling Collapse in the Interstate 90 Connector Tunnel, Boston, Massachusetts, July 10, 2006 (Highway Accident Report NTSB/HAR-07/02)" by National Transportation Safety Board, published by NTSB in 2007. Link: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/P... "Boston's Big Dig Project: A Cautionary Tale", published by Bridgewater Review, vol. 27, no. 1. "The Big Dig: project background", published by Mass.gov (Commonwealth of Massachusetts). Link: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/the... "Big Dig" by Roland Martin, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Big-Dig "Completing the 'Big Dig': Managing the Final Stages of Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project", published by The National Academies Press. Link: https://www.nationalacademies.org/rea... "Big Dig", published by Wikipedia. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig IMAGE CREDITS Photo: formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, brightened) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Bostonnow, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Garrett A. Wollman, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, brightened) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Ethan Long, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) / cropped to 16:9 Photo: JasonParis, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr (cropped) / cropped to 16:9 Archive images are shown with slow pan and zoom. Licenses: CC BY-SA 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY-SA 2.5: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... #documentary #history #truestory