Who decided that the best way to ventilate a tunnel ceiling was to suspend the basement floor over our heads? A 3-ton concrete section of the Central Artery Tunnel connector ceiling crashed onto Milena Del Valle's car while she and her husband were traveling to Logan Airport on Monday night. By Friday we learned that over 300 problem areas exist with connector bolts that suspend the concrete slabs overhead. The CAT cost taxpayers over 14.6 billion dollars by 2006. Shoddy work for such a hefty pricetag. Who benefited from the largest public works program that has commuters fleeing for safety?
It has been argued that math is the language of GOD (Grand Organizing Designer). Geometry is the picture of this language and its archetypal form cummunicates even when one is unconscious of the communication. From the geometry of sound to that of the living organism, there is a symetry of meaning and it vibrates all matter.
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