Beneath the streets of downtown Seattle, the largest machine of its kind sat dead in the dark. She had ground forward only ...

Bertha, that gigantic, inoperable tunnel boring machine everybody loves to hate, finally might get out of that big hole it dug itself into. After an environmental review, Seattle Tunnel Partners, the ...

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SEATTLE -- A machine digging a highway tunnel underneath Seattle that has sat idle since December likely won't begin working again for another six months, an official with the contractor said Friday.

Bertha has finished digging through five of the 10 zones needed for completion of the new SR 99 tunnel under downtown Seattle. Now in zone 6, it will soon dig along side the Pike Place Market. The ...

December has not been kind to Seattle's enormous tunneling project. And not just this December. A year ago this month, North America's largest tunnel-boring machine got stuck just 10 percent of the ...

Officials say it will be nearly a year before the damaged tunnel-boring machine stuck under downtown Seattle can start digging again. The Washington State Department of Transportation has released a ...

The machine boring the new State Route 99 tunnel under Seattle may not get back to work until the end of March 2015 while efforts continue to repair Bertha. The Washington State Department of ...

For the past four years, from Sodo to South Lake Union, a 9,270-foot underground dig has unfolded to bring Seattle the world’s largest tunnel, part of the $3.1 billion replacement of the Alaskan Way ...

SEATTLE – Tunnel boring machine Bertha will begin digging beneath Seattle again around Thanksgiving, the Washington State Department of Transportation announced Friday morning. Seattle Tunnel Partners ...

For more than ten years, Seattle has contemplated the future of the Alaskan Way Viaduct -- an iconic, elevated highway that skirts downtown along Puget Sound. The structure was damaged by a 2001 ...