Some guy on the Bertha site wondered if this will impact the cost. Of course not, Mr. Curious. Everybody knows the Union Goons love to volunteer their time and work for nothing.
This ill-conceived project is going to make Boston’s Big Dig look like lunch money. It’s digging under Elliott Bay (part of Puget Sound) in a known earthquake zone. The last big earthquake Seattle had, the major damage was a block inland from where this tunnel is going. Should they ever accidentally get this fiasco built, I for one will NEVER drive through it!~
You are off a bit. It isn’t drilling under Elliot Bay. It is drilling under some of the regrade in old low land areas of Seattle and under First Hill and Denny.
I wish they’d tunnel under the damn Sound and sell all the damn ferry boats. We on the Peninsula are held as mobility hostages. It costs either 15.00 to cross the Sound in your car and driver or 5.50 toll over a bridge to Tacoma! A tunnel makes more sense even in an earth quake zone. We can engineer it to be safe.
It is digging under Elliot Bay? I Thought it was digging directly under the middle of Seattle.
You must be from these (Puget Sound) parts.