Big Dig Agency’s Chief Resigns Under Pressure
The chief of the agency overseeing Boston’s Big Dig resigned under pressure from the governor, two weeks after falling concrete crushed a woman to death in her car.
The departure of Matthew J. Amorello, chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, was announced 90 minutes before a hearing was supposed to begin on Republican Gov. Mitt Romney’s effort to remove him from the $14.6-billion highway project.
Romney had been pressing for years to remove Amorello from the Big Dig, a highway project dogged by delays, cost overruns, leaks, falling debris, and allegations of shoddy workmanship and inferior materials.
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