Seattle tunnel
Roads Scholar: First Look at Seattle’s Gigantic Boring Machine
Just purusing WSDOT’s Flikr stream, as I’m wont to do on a sunny holiday-weekend Friday (!), when I came across this cool photo of Seattle’s tunnel-boring machine, currently under construction in Japan. When it’s finished, it will be the world’s biggest, and will be used to dig the SR 99 tunnel beneath downtown Seattle. Expect…
Viaduct for Dummies: Tunnel Clears Hurdle; Environmental Impact Statement Signed
From the mixed-metaphors department here at Seattle mag comes this update on the ever-updating saga that is the future of our waterfront: City officials are celebrating this week’s signing of the final Alaskan Way Viaduct environmental impact statement, which effectively removes one more hurdle on the replacement project’s road to realization. Like most viaduct/tunnel updates,…
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