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If it seems as if those dear highway and overpass construction projects in Massachusetts are never ending, we competence be right.

Nearly half of all highway and overpass projects in a state are over bill and some-more than one-third are not finished on time, an examination by a New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) has found. The execution delays outcome in agreement extensions that put thousands of additional work days on a state’s construction calendar and millions of dollars in contractors’ pockets.

In a final 4 mercantile years alone, contractors had 155,008 additional work days combined to their construction schedules — homogeneous to scarcely 425 years — and billed a state some-more than $352 million in cost overruns on hundreds of highway and overpass projects that have been finished via Massachusetts, a NECIR examination found by examining information performed from a Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

Projects still underway will supplement $127 million and scarcely 43,000 days to those figures.

Locally, a array of projects have missed their deadlines and bill targets. Along a Andover-Methuen widen of Interstate-93, for example, an $8.8 million repaving devise became a $10.5 million one, with a two-year execution delay. The Park Ride trickery during Dascomb and Frontage roads in Andover, meanwhile, cost an additional $207,000. (See compared story.)

Cost overruns and delays on open works projects have prolonged been a regard for mercantile watchdog groups like a Project on Government Oversight.

“You can’t open a protected filled with money. That usually doesn’t work,” pronounced Scott Amey, ubiquitous warn for group, formed in Washington, D.C. “The supervision needs to do all it can to strengthen itself and a taxpayers so that contracts don’t finish adult over bill and behind schedule.”

Lessons of endless time delays and construction shortfalls schooled from a Central Artery Tunnel Project, improved famous as “The Big Dig,” seem mislaid in a 4 years given 2007, when that $14 billion devise faced $12 billion in cost overruns and was years behind schedule. Today, Massachusetts continues to onslaught to move construction projects in on deadline and on budget.

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