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, the final contract in the $3.3-billion project to tear down the viaduct was awarded to Kiewit Infrastructure West.
Boston transportation officials on May 7 unveiled an estimated $3.5-billion plan for modern Green Line trains that could potentially double the capacity of the nation’s oldest and most heavily traveled light-rail system.
The fjord at the new Nordic Museum in Seattle's Ballard may not have ocean water flowing through it, but still serves as a symbolic architectural focal point for the $45-million, 57,000-sq-ft building.
Sound Transit's plan to implement bus rapid transit lines on three major highways around Lake Washington near Bellevue includes projects that will add road lanes and stations.
After nearly 30 years as a federal Superfund site, a full cleanup of radioactive and contaminated soil at the former Hunters Point naval shipyard in San Francisco appears as far away as ever.