let me get this straight, this thing costs $80MILLION dollars, and gets flummoxed by a piece of pipe... and the sad part is, they are LUCKY it broke where it did and not under a building
feh
I lived near Seattle when replacement of the old viaduct was debated. It was CLEARLY going to end up this way…drilling a massive tunnel through landfill, if you can imagine, had no possibility of a good outcome. And still, the citizens voted for it. Made me wonder whether 80% of the people in Seattle were a) mental midgets, b) on the take, or c) just run-of-the-mill liberal idiots.
One young City Council member suggested knocking down the viaduct after widening the surface street below. Cheaper, faster, doable--naturally he was almost run out of town on a rail.
If the state decides to get into this, innocent taxpayers in Eastern WA, where many conservatives live, will be expected to pony up for this stupid liberal scam. Big sigh.
Yeppers. Not much of surprise. The people of Seattle voted down the elevated monorail, which would have been much better than the light rail and trolleys they have now.
Probably should have just waited until they extended the high speed rail line from Southern California to them. Tunnels and elevated highways are so yesterday.
I recall a memo put out by Boeing in the 1950s. “In case
of an atomic bomb attack, sit where you are. The front of
Seattle is land fill, so are we. There’s nowhere to hide”.
or words to that affect.
Why not just hire excavators and manual laborers to dig the old fashioned way?
Has anyone tried jiggling it? Lefty loosey, righty tighty.
It was a little surprising to read that it was a city well that brought Bertha to a grinding halt. It’s not like there’s no physical evidence of a well on the surface. Like big water pipes, electric poles, fencing, signs, that kind of stuff. Did the contractor not have someone walking the drill path? What happens now? Is Bertha to be buried in cement and call it a day?
I used to live near Seattle in Kitsap county. The city of Bremerton spent a fortune to build a tunnel so cars exiting the ferry could drive underground 2 blocks leaving the area open to pedestrians. The city then kicked out the only businesses that were there (bars) and now it’s a dark, no-man’s land. Dumbest thing I’ve ever witnessed (except perhaps the condos the city built right before the market crash).
I live there and they are liberal idiots. God help us taxpayers. Also, landfill is unstable and we do have earthquakes. What will happen to the tunnel when there is a big earthquake? I would certainly hate to be in the tunnel when that happens.
it’s STILL stuck?!? it’s been stuck for months.
The other problem I have heard about is that Seattle was in a hurry to get this project started so they had Hitachi build and ship the TBM without doing complete testing to make sure this would not have happened.
Everybody in Seattle is a well educated political scientist, zero-growth, economist, or hemp cultivator. They are running a shortage of civil engineers.
Billy Gates and the other MS midgets have their minions in Seattle to support this sort of irresponsible ‘pork’. Where else would you want to replace an earthquake damaged viaduct with an underground tunnel? Who in their right mind would want to be entombed in a tunnel? … unless brained washed by the same people that have so many believing that a certain Seattle coffee is the ONLY coffee… LOL
let me get this straight, this thing costs $80MILLION dollars, and gets flummoxed by a piece of pipe... and the sad part is, they are LUCKY it broke where it did and not under a building
feh
Maybe there is a “massive” quantity of able-bodied welfare recipients who could do Bertha’s job. Just a thought.
The bluest skies you’ve ever seen in Seattle!
The hills the greenest green in Seattle!
Like a beautiful child growing up free and wild!
Full of hopes and full of fears,
Full of laughter, full of tears.
Full of a broke-dick boring machine
In Seattle! In Seattle!
For six days God could not be found. Finally, on the seventh day, Michael, the archangel, found Him.
“Where have You been?” Michael asked.
God smiled deeply and proudly and pointed down through the clouds. “Look,” He said. “Look what I’ve made.”
Michael looked down, but was puzzled. “What is it?” he asked.
“It’s a planet. And I’ve put life on it. I’m going to call it Earth and it’s going to be a place to test Balance.”
“Balance? What do you mean?” asked Michael.
Pointing to the different parts of the Earth, God explained. “Over there I’ve placed a continent of black people and there I’ve placed a continent of white people. Europe will have wealth and opportunity, Africa will be poor.” God continued pointing to different countries. “This one will be extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered in ice. Everything is in Balance.”
The Archangel was impressed. He pointed out a land area and said, “What is that?”
“That’s Seattle,” said God, “the most glorious place on earth. It has beautiful mountains, lakes, rivers and streams, hills, forests and plains.
Michael was in awe and filled with admiration. He asked, “But what about balance, God? You said there would be balance.”
God smiled. “Yes,” He said, “Wait till you see the idiots I put in that place!”
They could have replaced the viaduct in its entirety for about $500mil and less than 1/2 the projected time.
I’ll take “A” and “C”...Alex for one billion!!!
I’m sure there’s an app for that.