The Seattle snowpocalypse may have slightly delayed the start of the demolition of the now-closed Alaskan Way Viaduct, but there’s no stopping the fact that the aged elevated roadway will… Read More
There may not be a breeze coming off Elliott Bay the way there is during a drive along the elevated Alaskan Way Viaduct, but air will still be designed to… Read More
Traffic isn’t flowing through the new SR 99 tunnel beneath Seattle yet, but options for how much money flows out of it via tolls are already being considered in Washington… Read More
Leave it to a high-tech city above ground to build a high-tech roadway underground. Seattle’s SR 99 tunnel project has a number of noteworthy engineering and construction milestones in the… Read More
The seven-story-deep receiving pit where Bertha the SR 99 tunneling machine ended her years-long run has been transformed in just a matter of months as the Seattle highway project races… Read More
The road untraveled is starting to look like an actual road. Deep beneath Seattle, the SR 99 tunnel project continues at a pretty rapid pace. Perhaps not as rapid as… Read More
More than a year before the new State Route 99 tunnel is scheduled to open to vehicles in Seattle, I took a ride Thursday from one end of the 2-mile… Read More
Months after Bertha the Seattle tunnel machine stopped churning beneath the city, work continues on the SR 99 tunnel that will eventually replace the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct. A drone… Read More
Bye bye, Bertha. The Seattle tunnel machine, which carved its way beneath the city to make way for a new waterfront portion of SR 99 to replace the Alaskan Way… Read More
Seven weeks of nearly non-stop work are taking a toll on Bertha. The SR 99 tunneling machine, which cut a nearly 2-mile path beneath Seattle over the past few years,… Read More
Seattle’s new Alaskan Way tunnel — currently three years late and millions of dollars over budget — has been called the worst transportation investment in the entire United States. Now,… Read More
Over the years, Bertha the tunnel machine managed to successfully cut her way beneath Seattle and make room for a new SR 99 highway along the city’s waterfront. Now workers are cutting through Bertha,… Read More
Update: WSDOT released a new drone video on Thursday (above) with additional footage and sound to replace the previous video. WSDOT says Bertha chewed through 1,000 tons of concrete before… Read More
From the dark depths beneath Seattle, Bertha the SR 99 tunnel machine headed out of the muck and into daylight on Tuesday, completing a final push in a years-long effort to create space for a… Read More
After mining through more than 9,000 feet of Seattle underground, and rebounding from a lengthy breakdown and repair, Bertha the tunneling machine is poised to bust through its final obstacle on Tuesday. It’s… Read More
If you’ve forgotten what Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine, looks like after all these years, get ready to see her face again soon. Bertha’s massive cutterhead is just days… Read More
A 360-degree video shot inside the tunnel being built beneath Seattle gives viewers a unique new perspective of what it’s like to bore a 2-mile tube and construct a highway 200… Read More
It’s been a busy week deep beneath Seattle, as Bertha the tunneling machine keeps on trucking through Belltown. Two new videos from the Washington State Department of Transportation capture some… Read More
The potential collapse of the Alaskan Way Viaduct during a major Seattle earthquake is one of the main reasons why the aging elevated roadway is being replaced by a new… Read More
Spinning and pushing its way beneath Seattle, Bertha the SR 99 tunneling machine moved past the 5,280-foot mark on Thursday morning, creeping ever closer to an end point it’s expected… Read More
The SR 99 tunneling machine has passed the halfway point on its long journey beneath Seattle, and officials stood 10 stories below street level on Monday to show off where Bertha… Read More
If you’ve lost track of how long Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine has been underground (mostly) working on Seattle’s new waterfront roadway, well, forget about her for a minute.… Read More
The double-decker highway that will eventually run beneath Seattle will sit inside a concrete tube that is as tall as a five-story building. The rings that comprise that 2-mile-long tube… Read More
Seattleites caught up in the twists and turns and starts and stops of Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine, might lose sight of the fact that trailing behind her boring efforts… Read More
Next time I think about requesting a stand-up desk or I ask for the air conditioning to be adjusted near my desk, I’m going to think about the workers 120 feet below downtown Seattle.… Read More
High above the spot where Bertha, the SR 99 tunnel machine, sits idle during a scheduled maintenance stop, workers with Seattle Tunnel Partners and Ballard Marine Construction explained Tuesday what it takes… Read More
Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine, is nearly a third of the way along its path to create a new underground roadway in Seattle. On Thursday it stopped for the… Read More
Since getting beyond the delicate work of crossing beneath the Alaskan Way Viaduct in May, Bertha the SR 99 tunneling machine has moved into a stretch that takes it below downtown Seattle… Read More
Seattle-area drivers will regain access to the Alaskan Way Viaduct in time for the Monday morning commute as Bertha the tunneling machine has made significant — and safe — progress… Read More
A new drone video wowed us a couple days ago because it was shot inside Seattle’s under-construction SR 99 tunnel. But an altered version on Youtube that includes “Star Wars” footage and… Read More