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      <title>National Recruitment Effort Starts for Interstate Bridge Program Administrator</title>
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        <![CDATA[Oregon and Washington continue the joint effort in restarting -- yet again -- discussions focused on replacing the aging Interstate Bride over the Columbia River, the Interstate 5 crossing that links the two Pacific Northwest states.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Bus-Only Lanes Growing in Portland’s Downtown Core via Rose Lane Project</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>State Route 99 Tunnel: One Year Later</title>
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        <![CDATA[Call it a birthday. Or an anniversary. Either way, Seattle&rsquo;s State Route 99 tunnel has hosted public traffic for an entire year.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Vancouver’s SkyTrain Takes Next Step Toward New Extension</title>
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        <![CDATA[Vancouver's original SkyTrain line -- Expo Line -- took another step toward making a proposed extension happen when the Mayor's Council supported a business case to extend the light rapid transit system from Surrey to Langley as part of a 10-mile extension.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>FTA Grants Fund Light Rail in Federal Way, Rapid Bus in Portland</title>
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        <![CDATA[A pair of Federal Transit Administration grants will help expand transit in the Pacific Northwest.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Portland-Area $7 Billion Transportation Package Moving Forward</title>
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        <![CDATA[Portland-area voters may get an official look at a likely $7 billion transportation package come November in the form of bond requests, but Metro Council hopes to have the package of projects sorted out this spring.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New ODOT Office Focuses on Megaprojects, Tolling</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Oregon Dept of Transportation has put a fresh focus on clearing up traffic woes in the Portland metro area by forming a new Office of Urban Mobility and Mega Project Delivery.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Washington State Plans Second Major Puget Sound Airport to Ease Gridlock</title>
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        <![CDATA[Sea-Tac International Airport continues to outgrow its landlocked position in King County.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Hanford’s Vit Plant Welcomes Chemists in Analytical Laboratory</title>
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        <![CDATA[As the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant -- more commonly referred to as the Vit Plant -- moves toward a process of turning 56 million gallons of radioactive waste into vitrified glass in 2023, the first team of chemists have already set up shop in the plant.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Pacific Northwest Construction Stories to Watch in 2020</title>
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        <![CDATA[As 2019 turns to 2020, the construction stories that dominated the news over the past year will either carry over into the new year or give way to a new focus.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/blogs/15-evergreen/post/48364-pacific-northwest-construction-stories-to-watch-in-2020</link>
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      <title>Northgate Link Nears Completion of Roosevelt Station Ahead of 2021 Service</title>
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        <![CDATA[The new Roosevelt Station of Sound Transit's Northgate Link Extension is now more than 95 percent complete and quickly becoming a key component to showing that the 4.3-mile light rail extension north of downtown Seattle is on track to serve riders in 2021.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2019 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alaskan Way Viaduct Demolition Complete, Capping Eventful 2019 for Tunnel Project</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2019 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Sound Transit Wants Legal Fight to Decide Fate of Projects After State’s Initiative 976 Passage</title>
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        <![CDATA[When Washington state voters passed Initiative 976, which cuts car-tab fees down to a $30 cap, transportation agencies across the state had sharp reactions. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2019 10:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>The High-Speed Rail Chase in ‘Cascadia’</title>
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        <![CDATA[Even as budgets get stretched and slashed for transportation across the Pacific Northwest, the effort to go high-speed when it comes to rail continues in the Cascadia region, largely thanks to Microsoft and governmental agencies.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2019 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Oregon-Washington I-5 Bridge Project Officially Restarted</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Interstate 5 Bridge project between Oregon and Washington is officially back. At least for now, that is.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Major Tacoma Highway Project Nears Completion</title>
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        <![CDATA[The 11 years and three construction projects that took place to increase capacity on the Nalley Valley Viaduct -- the interchange connecting Interstate 5 and State Route 16 in Tacoma -- have been 11 long years for travelers in the area.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2019 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/blogs/15-evergreen/post/48107-major-tacoma-highway-project-nears-completion</link>
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      <title>Burnside Bridge Two-Year Fix Undergoing Finishing Touches</title>
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        <![CDATA[Two years of work to repair and upgrade Portland's Burnside Bridge has reached the final few weeks of projects, complete with a new traffic layout and construction that included upgrades to the bridge's surface, structure, mechanical and electrical functions.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Fixes to Train-Damaged Portland Bridge Ongoing</title>
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        <![CDATA[When a train derailment damaged columns supporting the North Going Street Bridge in Portland on Sept. 7, the uncertainty around the lone public connection to Swan Island, which houses about 200 industrial businesses and more than 12,000 jobs, including the ample freight operations of Daimler, UPS and FedEx, left the future of the fixes in doubt.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2019 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Sound Transit Breaks Ground on Downtown Redmond Link Extension</title>
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        <![CDATA[Sound Transit is extending its line north, south, east and west with the goal of connecting the entirety of the Puget Sound through light rail track. The Downtown Redmond Link Extension serves as the next step in that expansion.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Seattle Construction Focus Turns to Waterfront</title>
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        <![CDATA[With multiple mega-projects virtually all wrapped up in Seattle, a $724 million project to rebuild the city's central waterfront starts to take a more prominent role in the future of Seattle construction and transportation.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Vancouver’s George Massey Tunnel Replacement May Now be a Tunnel Instead of a Bridge</title>
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        <![CDATA[The constant political back-and-forth in British Columbia, Canada, over how to deal with an aging George Massey Tunnel has ping-ponged from uncertainty to a $3.5 billion, 10-lane bridge, back to uncertainty, to no bridge and now to an eight-lane submerged tunnel.]]>
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      <title>New Pedestrian, Utility Bridge Takes Shape on Everett Waterfront</title>
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        <![CDATA[Amidst the constraints of weight limits, a seawall, a waterfront restaurant and high-voltage power poles, crews from ICI Interwest Construction Inc. and heavy mover Oxbo Mega Transport Solutions positioned a $20 million, 282-ft-long pedestrian and utility bridge in place this fall along the Everett, Washington, waterfront.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>PDX to Demolish Concourse A as Plans Continue for Expansions at Concourses B and E</title>
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        <![CDATA[Soon, the concourse discussion at Portland International Airport will start with the letter B.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2019 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Seattle Cancels Streetcar Order While Announcing Plans to Continue with Project</title>
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        <![CDATA[The $52 million contract the Seattle Dept. of Transportation had to purchase 10 new streetcars for a planned Center City Connector line hit the brakes this month, even while the department says they plan to continue with the delayed project.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2019 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Vancouver Explores Granville Connector Project to Increase Pedestrian Access on Downtown Bridge</title>
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        <![CDATA[In a situation few cities find themselves in, Vancouver, B.C., is exploring how to best use the extra vehicle capacity on the 1954-opened Granville Bridge.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Sound Transit Breaks Ground on Extension to Snohomish County</title>
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        <![CDATA[Sound Transit's continued expansion both in and around the Seattle area continues as it pushes north toward Snohomish County for the first time.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Vancouver’s TransLink Bringing on 24 New Cars for September, 24 More for 2020</title>
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        <![CDATA[The SkyTrain light rail cars keep showing up throughout British Columbia as TransLink adds 24 new cars in September to help handle increased service on the Expo and Millennium lines in the metro Vancouver region, while another 24 cars will grow Canada Line's service in 2020.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2019 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Work Entering Final Phases</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Seattle waterfront will feature a new look when demolition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct moves into the mop-up stages by the end of September.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Portland Transit Tunnel Concept Under Exploration</title>
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        <![CDATA[A Metro and TriMet-led discussion about future solutions for mass transit throughout Portland led to the concept of a tunnel under the Willamette River in downtown Portland.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>State Route 520 Work Continues with Montlake Project Construction</title>
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        <![CDATA[A strong economy in the U.S. and other key global markets pushed the ENR 2019 Top 200 Environmental Firms to revenue levels not seen for some years.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2019 05:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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