Washington

Wed May 10, 2017

Sound Transit Plans $54B Infrastructure Investment

Sound Transit unveiled plans to kick off one of the most ambitious public transit capital investment programs in the nation's history. By the end of 2017, Sound Transit will be planning, designing or building 24 train and bus projects in Snohomish, King and Pierce counties....

Mon May 08, 2017

Arrivé Construction Begins in Downtown Seattle

Construction has begun on the 41-story tower previously known as the Potala Tower on 2116 4th in downtown Seattle. The revitalized name and marketing campaign is a joint venture between The Molasky Group + Binjiang Tower Corp....

Mon April 17, 2017

AASHTO Names '17 Transportation Mgmt. Fellowships

AASHTO announced that it has chosen three employees of state departments of transportation to work in the coming year at association headquarters in Washington, D.C., as winners of 2017 Transportation Management Fellowships....

Lori Tobias - Mon April 17, 2017

Bertha Breaks Through: Iconic TBM Emerges Into Daylight in Seattle

Sixty-four years to the day the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle opened to traffic, the tunneling machine dubbed "Bertha" emerged into daylight from a 1.7 mi. (2.7 km) drive beneath the city. The crew broke into the 90-ft....

Debbie Cafazzo - Tue March 21, 2017

Students Showcase Construction Skills in Project to Help the Homeless

Construction trades students at the Pierce County Skills Center are among at least 20 teams of high school and college students from across the state who are busy building “tiny house” shelters for the homeless this month....

Andrea Watts - CEG Correspondent - Mon March 20, 2017

Elliot Bay Seawall Project Nearing Completion

After nearly three years of traffic and pedestrian detours throughout the city of Seattle's historic waterfront, the Elliot Bay Seawall Project is nearing its anticipated completion in spring 2017....

Lori Tobias - Mon February 20, 2017

WSDOT Expects to Have Point Defiance Bypass Operational This Fall

When Friday rolls around, crews on the Point Defiance Bypass Project are ready to attack their job building new rail line, but when Monday arrives, it's back to business for the railroad. It's a tightly synchronized operation of a $150 million project that will make rail travel all that more efficient in the corridor stretching from Vancouver, B.C....

Mon February 06, 2017

$550 Million Expansion Airport Expansion Project

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has officially broken ground on its North Satellite Modernization Project, which it says will expand and renovate the 44-year-old facility to better serve passengers and respond to continuing growth....

Mon January 23, 2017

USDOT Tool May Allow $2B for Seattle Projects

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that four transit projects in the Seattle area could receive up to nearly $2 billion in financing through an innovative infrastructure financing tool created by the Department of Transportation's Build America Bureau....

Gene Johnson - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon January 23, 2017

State Denies Sublease for Millennium Coal Export Terminal

Washington's outgoing public lands commissioner said he is refusing to allow the state's aquatic lands to be used for a major coal-export terminal along the Columbia River. But the company behind the proposal insisted the decision would have no effect on its plans....