Nothing to see here. Keep moving, people.

BOSTON – Falling concrete slabs killed a woman driving through the Big Dig late Monday night. Her husband, driving the car, escaped with minor injuries.

Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Chairman Matt Amorello said Tuesday at a press conference that he doesn't believe safety is jeopardized elsewhere in the tunnel system. "We have no evidence whatsoever that the structural integrity and safety of the system has been compromised,” Amarillo said. Moments later he was crushed by a falling concrete block.

Every few months, Big Dig officials remind us that everything is fine, that there is nothing to question the integrity of the construction. Pavement cracks. Water spews from between the roof and walls. Three-ton concrete panels flatten cars and kill people. Just business as usual.

The trouble is, this (and the cover up that follows) is business as usual. $14.6 billion dollars spent and who is in charge? But who cares, it's only taxpayer money.

• In 2005, Bechtel was fined $31 million dollars for cost overruns on the project, at least 4 times too low according to a year-long Boston Globe investigation into mismanagement and abuse.
• Attorney General Tom Reilly agreed to a five-year confidentiality agreement with the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and Bechtel that gags information from the investigation of tunnel leaks and castrates the state's power to prosecute potential wrongdoing.
• Managers of Aggregate Industries have been charged with intentionally pouring faulty concrete into walls and roof slabs in sections of I-93, I-90, among other places.

Do a little digging and the list continues. So I suggest that we all trust Amarello. Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain, counting their money and laughing their assess off.

I do wonder what would happen if this went down in N.Y. and Eliot Sptizer were on the case?