Sound Transit, serving the Seattle metropolitan area, will debut the first 6.5-mile segment of its $3.67-billion East Link Extension April 27, launching light-rail service along an eight-station route between South Bellevue and the Redmond Technology Center, both east of the city.
Construction-in-progress spending climbs higher, with Top 25 firms accounting for 60%, as economists predict a megaproject boom will compound resource challenges.
Remains of two construction workers are still missing and strategies to refloat the container ship that hit the bridge have proven more complex than initially thought.