April 22, 2014 at 5:40 pm
#807264
wakeflood
Participant
Whether or not you agree with the tunnel decision, you can’t call it an “engineering overreach”.
There’s literally hundreds of these things completed and hundreds in progress all over the globe. Including several just a few miles away from Bertha. And the material being bored through isn’t unique, either.
What is happening with Bertha is about a number of things (contractual relationships, financial strategies, planning, etc.), but pushing the technological envelope isn’t one of them.
Carry on…