Cracked nuts in Big Dig tunnels

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– News from elsewhere spotted by Quincy Quarry News
Cracked nuts in Big Dig tunnels no joke.
Even more breaking badly bad news about the Big Dig.
Duly cited by news aggrevator service MASSterList.com:
“First it was water, now it’s cracked nuts. Hundreds of pieces of hardware holding up lighting fixtures in the Big Dig tunnels are failing and will need to be replaced, but transportation officials don’t yet know the costs, the Herald reports. Transportation officials say the issue could date to the installation of the lights and that there is no danger to the public.  And while the costs are not yet known, they say repairs could take six months.”

Also, MASSterList noted that –  ironically – today is National Nut Day.
In turn, Quincy Quarry cannot help but suspect that this mention was an attempt by MASSterList to copy the Quarry’s widely read as well as unique approach to covering the news of the day.
Oh, and for a too good to not be true quote cited in the Herald article:
As to what cracked the nuts, MassDOT Highway Administrator Thomas Tinlin was cited as saying that “(t)he working theory is they may have been over-torqued and became damaged when somebody thought they needed to over-­tighten them.”
File this comment under “redumdnent“– or at least ill-uttered.
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