It took only 10 days for Seattle Tunnel Partners to successfully mine beneath the Alaskan Way Viaduct—State Route 99—with Bertha, a positive step in moving forward on the 1.7-mile bored tunnel that will eventually replace the raised roadway.
If it weren’t for the traffic mess created by closing the Alaskan Way Viaduct, many in Seattle would be ecstatic about the closure of the elevated and aging roadway for about two weeks.
It may have taken a couple of years to get it to this point, but the Washington State Dept. of Transportation has turned to the open house phase to show off plans for the Colman Dock ferry terminal in downtown Seattle.
Commuters traveling west on Seattle’s state Route 520 had the first-ever opportunity to traverse the world’s longest floating bridge; then, heading back east, they crossed the world’s second-longest floating bridge.
Monday, April 11, marked a historic first commute across the world’s longest floating bridge in Seattle as westbound traffic crossed the new State Route 520 bridge over Lake Washington.
The new look of Nike’s Worldwide Headquarters continues to take visual shape, with Nike releasing more renderings of the planned upgrades to the campus new Beaverton, Oregon.
Oregon’s busiest two-lane crossing has opened after four years of planning and construction that included building a new bridge and moving an old one for use as a detour.
In what Calgary, Alberta-based Veresen calls an “extremely surprising” move, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denied the applications for its Coos Bay, Ore., Jordan Cove LNG offshore facility and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, stating that “the record does not support a finding that the public benefits of the [pipeline] outweigh the adverse effects on landowners.”