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The State Route 99 tunnel, also known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, is a bored highway tunnel in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States.The 2-mile (3.2 km), double-decker tunnel carries a section of State Route 99 (SR 99) under Downtown Seattle from SoDo in the south to South Lake Union in the north.
[70] [71] Fellow tunnel opponent City Councilman Mike O'Brien said that, when looked at a different way, cancelling the tunnel would save the city $700 million. [72] The resulting referendum, on which a yes-vote was effectively pro-tunnel, was approved by about 60% of Seattle voters. [73]
Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel: Road tunnel Completed in 2019 $4.25 billion (2009 est.) [5] Amazon headquarters, Seattle Office buildings In progress $4 billion [6] East Link Extension: Transit line In progress $3.7 billion [7] Scheduled to open in 2023 Lynnwood Link Extension: Transit line In progress $2.9 billion [8] Scheduled to open ...
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In December, three package size options were presented to the Sound Transit Board: a 15-year, $26 billion program with at-grade lines between Ballard and West Seattle; a 20-year, $30 billion program with a new downtown tunnel for Ballard and West Seattle; and a 25-year, $48 billion program with a new downtown tunnel for Ballard. [31] [32]
The project could take travelers from the British capital to the Big Apple in just about 54 minutes via a 3,400-mile tunnel. Elon Musk Claims He Can Build $20bn Tunnel That Takes People From NYC ...
Freighter Fairpartner carrying the disassembled tunnel boring machine into the Port of Seattle in April 2013. Bertha was designed and manufactured by Hitachi Zosen Sakai Works of Osaka, Japan, and was the world's largest earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine, [14] at a cutterhead diameter of 57.5 feet (17.5 m) across.