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04/29/2016

Hours after a two-week long closure began on the viaduct, a Waste Management truck stuck the underside of the viaduct at Elliott and Blanchard Streets near Seattle's waterfront. Witnesses report there is a natural gas leak stemming from the impact as well. Seattle Fire officials haven't given any details but the city 911 log shows a dispatch to the scene for a natural gas leak.

SEATTLE -- The Alaskan Way Viaduct just can't catch a break these days...Hours after a two-week long closure began on the viaduct, a Waste Management truck stuck the underside of the viaduct at Elliott and Blanchard Streets near Seattle's waterfront.Witnes

05/19/2015

The Polar Polluter Is the SECOND Giant Drilling Machine to Need Servicing Downtown: With this in mind, Sightline Institute asks: "Haven't you heard that this is where colossal drills come to die?"

“The is ridiculous! NW says ! Let's stop this Goliath ”

04/26/2015

Might have done it without Bertha. Let that idea sink in for a moment...

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04/26/2015

The evidence mounts...

Superlatives are at the heart of the infatuation with huge infrastructure projects, but big isn’t necessarily best.

04/26/2015

It's not just Seattle who's fighting this sort of thing...

Trains loaded with millions of gallons of crude oil thread the thickly populated areas of some of the nation's biggest cities, including Milwaukee. The trains have attracted little local attention. But this is changing.

04/26/2015

02/11/2014

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

The contractor building the Highway 99 tunnel will decide by the week's end whether to access a damaged bearing seal through the back of the machine, or by digging a hole.

02/07/2014

Answers are few this week about whether tunnel machine Bertha needs repairs, after the front end overheated multiple times.

02/01/2014

Seattle's massive tunneling operation is on hold yet again due to ongoing problems with the world's largest boring machine, officials said Friday.

01/27/2014

Internet, you know what to do.

Slog, I need your help. I'm gonna try a bit of crowd-sourcing here—I've got a big document that you may be able to untangle. First...

01/26/2014

The metal pipe that Tutor Perini (NYSE: TPC) & Dragados's (BMAD: ACS) deep-bore tunnel boring machine ran into was in the project contract.

01/21/2014

What exactly went wrong with Seattle's tunnel boring machine? Five different scenarios WSDOT may face this week.