Why is Bertha stuck? WSDOT's 5 levels of tunnel-drilling hell
What exactly went wrong with Seattle's tunnel boring machine? Five different scenarios WSDOT may face this week.
Matt A. Fikse
Matt Fikse-Verkerk (Twitter: @mattfikse) covered urban affairs, politics, tech, and business at Crosscut from 2009 to 2014. He lives in Seattle and works for a biotechnology firm in Redmond, WA.
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