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Hours after a two-week long closure began on the viaduct, a Waste Management truck stuck the underside of the viaduct at Elliott and Blanchard Streets near Seattle's waterfront. Witnesses report there is a natural gas leak stemming from the impact as well. Seattle Fire officials haven't given any details but the city 911 log shows a dispatch to the scene for a natural gas leak.

Garbage truck strikes part of Alaskan Way Viaduct in Downtown Seattle SEATTLE -- The Alaskan Way Viaduct just can't catch a break these days...Hours after a two-week long closure began on the viaduct, a Waste Management truck stuck the underside of the viaduct at Elliott and Blanchard Streets near Seattle's waterfront.Witnes

The Polar Polluter Is the SECOND Giant Drilling Machine to Need Servicing Downtown: With this in mind, Sightline Institute asks: "Haven't you heard that this is where colossal drills come to die?"

Seattle: Where colossal drills come to die. “The is ridiculous! NW says ! Let's stop this Goliath ”

Might have done it without Bertha. Let that idea sink in for a moment...

Did Seattle’s SR 99 tunnel really require Big Bertha? Indeco argues breakers are the answer Equipment World Magazine - Construction Equipment, News and Information

The evidence mounts...

Tunnel to Nowhere Superlatives are at the heart of the infatuation with huge infrastructure projects, but big isn’t necessarily best.

It's not just Seattle who's fighting this sort of thing...

As oil tanker trains rumble through cities, concerns grow Trains loaded with millions of gallons of crude oil thread the thickly populated areas of some of the nation's biggest cities, including Milwaukee. The trains have attracted little local attention. But this is changing.

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

WSDOT: Bertha repairs to take months | Crosscut.com The contractor building the Highway 99 tunnel will decide by the week's end whether to access a damaged bearing seal through the back of the machine, or by digging a hole.

New plan to get Bertha moving has yet to move Answers are few this week about whether tunnel machine Bertha needs repairs, after the front end overheated multiple times.

Seattle tunneling operations on hold yet again Seattle's massive tunneling operation is on hold yet again due to ongoing problems with the world's largest boring machine, officials said Friday.

Internet, you know what to do.

How Far Behind Schedule Is the Deep-Bore Tunnel? Slog, I need your help. I'm gonna try a bit of crowd-sourcing here—I've got a big document that you may be able to untangle. First...

Tunnel Trouble: Contract Discussed Steel Pipe Later Hit The metal pipe that Tutor Perini (NYSE: TPC) & Dragados's (BMAD: ACS) deep-bore tunnel boring machine ran into was in the project contract.

Why is Bertha stuck? WSDOT's 5 levels of tunnel-drilling hell | Crosscut.com What exactly went wrong with Seattle's tunnel boring machine? Five different scenarios WSDOT may face this week.