seattle tunnel

SEATTLE (AP) — Records show injuries suffered by workers on Seattle's downtown tunnel project last year resulted in about $700,000 in workers' compensation claims. The contractor was cited and fined twice in 2015 for safety violations. ...

  SEATTLE (AP) — The state has halted the digging of the new Highway 99 tunnel under downtown Seattle after a sinkhole formed along the waterfront. Gov. Jay Inslee and the Department of Transportation said Thursday they ordered Seattle Tunnel Partners to suspend digging operations by the massive tunnel-boring machine known as "Bertha" until the contractor can determine what caused the si

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle's tunnel-boring machine has moved past the concrete walls that make up a repair pit and has started digging into soil about 80 feet below street-level. After being out of commission for about two years, the machine called Bertha has tunneled about 73 feet and installed 12 concrete tunnel rings since it started moving again on Dec. 22....

A Washington state Transportation Department official says it could take "several days or a week" for the state to come up with a plan and consult with Indian tribes before archaeologists can begin sifting through a deposit of shells found above the stalled boring machine for a tunnel under downtown Seattle...