The Washington State Department of Transportation is warning Good to Go! customers to be on the lookout for fraudulent emails or texts seeking payment for past due toll bills. In… Read More
The Washington State Department of Transportation is blaming a “cybersecurity incident” for taking out parts of its website and app this week, disrupting the flow of travel-related information. Outages which… Read More
When the Washington State Department of Transportation announced that both the Good To Go highway toll payment system and its call center were going dark for a two-week refresh, the… Read More
Seattle’s South Lake Union tech hub might not be as bustling as it would normally be, pre-pandemic, but when traffic and workers return to the neighborhood in force eventually, getting… Read More
Average speeds on major roadways in the Seattle region were more than 10 mph faster than normal on Thursday morning, the first full workday after Microsoft, Amazon and other major… Read More
If a new roadway or bridge or other infrastructure element in Washington state looks and drives exactly like you’d hoped it would, perhaps Kurt Stiles and his team at the… Read More
The Alaskan Way Viaduct was an artery through the heart of downtown Seattle for more than 60 years, carrying people and goods along a stretch of the city’s waterfront. In… Read More
Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct has been disappearing from the city’s waterfront in plain sight for months, but as the historic demolition project moves along, a new video offers an even… Read More
If it appears, on many days, like Amazon’s Seattle headquarters has seemingly popped up overnight to transform the look of the city, a new time-lapse video will back up that… 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 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
Rather than shake your fists at Seattle-area traffic these days, perhaps it’s best to just relax and … smile. Clearly the folks at the Washington State Department of Transportation are… 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
Something about putting up with years of road construction seems to make the time fly when a project is complete and being used on a daily basis. Drivers in Seattle… 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
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