From Thursday’s Boston Globe:

Big Dig firm to help run T project

Board initially leery of hiring company; will aid MBTA on locomotive deal

Parsons Brinckerhoff is back!

The folks who gave you shoddy Big Dig construction, massive cost overruns, endless deadline delays, and one tragic tunnel death are once again the go-to guys for the Bay State:

Yesterday, the MBTA agreed to hire Parsons Brinckerhoff as a subcontractor on an $8.7 million deal to help the state manage its $115 million purchase of 20 new commuter rail locomotives, to be built in Idaho. Some on the MBTA’s board of directors seemed initially hesitant, but state Secretary of Transportation Jeffrey B. Mullan convinced them that it was time to move on.

“PB Americas is one of the great engineering companies in the United States,’’ he said. “It has a long history of excellence. I know that mistakes were made on the Artery/Tunnel project, and people paid for those mistakes, and it resulted in an extreme, unfortunate incident on Interstate 90. But I think that PB has, not just in Massachusetts but throughout the nation and indeed the world, proven its capabilities time and time again.’’

Pardon me, Mr. Mullan, but that “extreme, unfortunate incident on Interstate 90” was in fact the death of Milena Del Valle.

The Globe piece never challenged Mullan’s statement, nor did MBTA board of directors member Ferdinand Alvaro Jr.:

Alvaro said he was reassured by Mullan’s statement and by a packet of materials about Parsons Brinckerhoff’s “corporate citizenship.’’

Then again, Thursday’s Boston Herald challenged . . . nothing. It had no story about the rehab deal with PB.

But Friday’s Herald roared back with . . . an Associated Press wire service piece. (UPDATE: Only on the web, not in the dead-tree edition.)

Where’s the outrage, you feisty local tabloid?

What – too busy keeping track of Boston’s Brooke Astor lookalike Steven Tyler?

Shame on you.