Q13Fox » This news story focuses on the ongoing problems on the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Project, a mega design-build project in Washington State. In early February 2014, Washington State Department of Transportation officials announced that the tunnel boring machine, known as Bertha, may be stalled underground for months to come. The $80 million machine stalled in […]
National Post » A secret subterranean heart, tinged with mystery and myth, beats beneath the streets in many of the world’s great cities. Tourists seek out the catacombs of Rome, the sewers of Paris and the subway tunnels of New York. Some people believe a den of interstellar aliens lurks beneath Denver International Airport.
WSDOT » This animation shows how the world’s largest tunneling machine works.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer » Called the Holgate-to-King Street project, WSDOT plans to replace that section of the double-deck highway with two side-by-side roadways that as envisioned, will connect with the planned deep-bore tunnel beneath downtown Seattle, which will replace the central waterfront portion of the aging viaduct.