After the Big Dig tunnel's ceiling collapsed and killed a Boston woman in 2006, lawmakers promised to fix a glaring gap in the country's transportation safety network: the lack of a national highway tunnel inspection program.
Yet nearly three years after the accident, Congress has failed to create a federal tunnel program similar to the one already used to safeguard the nation's bridges.
Any sense of urgency has faded along with all the headlines about the deadly Big Dig accident, and that frustrates Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Mass., a former mayor who has led the fight on Capitol Hill for national highway tunnel inspections.
"It shows how long it …
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