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.
In what Calgary, Alberta-based Veresen calls an “extremely surprising” move, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denied the applications for its Coos Bay, Ore., Jordan Cove LNG offshore facility and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, stating that “the record does not support a finding that the public benefits of the [pipeline] outweigh the adverse effects on landowners.”
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.
Confronting a spaghetti bowl of roads in and out of SeaTac International Airport, south of Seattle, owner Sound Transit opted for its first-ever turnkey design-build contract to better integrate civil, structural, station and system components of a new light-rail system extension that will serve the airport.
The Washington Senate ousted state Dept. of Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson on Feb. 5—the first rejection of a gubernatorial appointee in the state since 1998.
