Historic Pier Walk: The big kahuna in the waterfront’s evolution. Expect a sprawling promenade extending from Pioneer Square Beach to Pier 63, filled with all Alaskan Way historic and commercial stalwarts. Continue reading Welcome to Your New Central Waterfront, Seattle
Peterson climbs aboard WSDOT with two megaprojects already in progress that threaten not simply Hammond’s reputation as on on-time, on-budget steward, but the state’s fiscal health. The Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement project and SR 520 Bridge Replacement project amount to more than $7.2 billion in the latest iteration of their ever-changing budgets. Continue reading New WSDOT Chief Boards Runaway Trains of Viaduct & 520 Projects
What Gregoire, Sims, and Nickels could do was present everyone with a fait accompli: a construction megaproject in midstream, and the promise of gridlock if more funds aren’t made available. Specifically, says Metro chief Kevin Desmond “about 125 daily bus trips and 7,500 daily transit seats will be lost — while tunnel construction and viaduct demolition continues into 2016.” Continue reading Who Made King County Transit the Tunnel Fall Guy?
For most of 2012, WSDOT was watchdogged by KOMO News because of cracks found in new pontoons for the new 520 bridge. Now the Seattle Times reports that Bertha, the 7,000-ton tunnel boring machine, purpose-built for digging the SR 99 tunnel beneath Seattle, sustained damage during its initial testing in Japan. Continue reading Both of WSDOT’s Seattle Megaprojects Off to a Bumpy Start
Moving ahead with the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement project, Washington Department of Transportation crews will reroute Alaskan Way traffic south of Spring Street to a newly improved road below the viaduct. That in turn will change the way you get to the ferry toll plaza at Colman Dock. Continue reading Alaskan Way Reroute Begins 2nd Week of May
We haven’t been covering the ongoing joustings regarding the deep-bore tunnel much as of late, but things are about to heat up again, with the release of the SR 99 – Alaskan Way Viaduct and Seawall Replacement Project’s final environmental impact statement scheduled for July.
To wit, PubliCola alerted us to the defiant tenor of Seattle Department of Transportation chief Peter Hahn’s cover letter to the Washington State Department of Transportation, as he signed off on the final EIS. Continue reading SDOT Commends WSDOT on Adding Facts to Tunnel’s Environmental Impact Statement
