Alaskan Way Viaduct Tear-Down Contract Awarded to Kiewit View Larger Image Engineering News-Record » As Washington State Dept. of Transportation officials look toward a fall 2018 opening of the 1.7-mile-long bored tunnel under downtown Seattle that will replace the aging 1953-opened Alaskan Way Viaduct—also part of State Route 99—the final contract in the $3.3-billion project to tear down the viaduct was awarded to Kiewit Infrastructure West. Michelle2018-05-31T09:32:57-08:00May 21st, 2018|Alaskan Way Viaduct, Design-Build, Highways, Washington| Share This Story, Choose Your Platform! FacebookTwitterEmail Related Posts ‘A fiasco from the beginning’ — Caltrans’ costs soar on $1.1 billion San Francisco tunnels April 10th, 2019 Getting There: Congestion pricing isn’t coming to Spokane, but these roads aren’t free and never were April 8th, 2019 Multi-billion, decade-long toll road plan gets green light, but bottlenecks loom March 12th, 2019 Carbon fee returns in Olympia as lawmakers consider $15 billion transportation package March 6th, 2019 Can America Still Build Big? A California Rail Project Raises Doubts February 25th, 2019 Northam announces selection of firms to build $3.3 billion tunnel project February 16th, 2019 Iowa drivers, rejoice: 60 years later, northern Iowa’s Highway 20 expansion is finally done October 16th, 2018 What’s Colorado Proposition 110: Sales tax increase for transportation October 12th, 2018 Transportation officials work to connect I-10 and I-19 south of Tucson October 12th, 2018