Commuters traveling west on Seattle’s state Route 520 had the first-ever opportunity to traverse the world’s longest floating bridge; then, heading back east, they crossed the world’s second-longest floating bridge.
Monday, April 11, marked a historic first commute across the world’s longest floating bridge in Seattle as westbound traffic crossed the new State Route 520 bridge over Lake Washington.
The new look of Nike’s Worldwide Headquarters continues to take visual shape, with Nike releasing more renderings of the planned upgrades to the campus new Beaverton, Oregon.
Seasonally-adjusted employment figures were kind to both Washington and Oregon, but construction employment continues to falter in Alaska and overall unemployment remains high.
Oregon’s busiest two-lane crossing has opened after four years of planning and construction that included building a new bridge and moving an old one for use as a detour.
The first engine has been installed in a new Siemens Charger locomotive, a key step in supplying the Washington State Dept. of Transportation with eight new Siemens Charger locomotives as part of a nearly $800 million Cascades High-Speed Rail federal grant to improve passenger rail.
The total feet mined by Bertha, the world’s largest diameter tunnel-boring machine currently moving under downtown Seattle, hasn’t been impressive in the last few weeks simply for distance, but the fact that Bertha continues adding to its mining total is a feat worth noting.
The size of the Sound Transit tunnel-boring machine Pamela—at 21 ft in diameter—doesn’t compare to the world’s largest TBM, Bertha, at 57 ft in diameter, tunneling in the same city.
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