The first round of inspections for the State Route 99 tunnel are about to get underway. While crews work on their tests, some ...

With construction on the Alaskan Way tunnel just months away, the Washington Department of Transportation said Friday it still has not bought all of the land rights beneath downtown Seattle for the ...

Crews will close the State Route 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct this weekend to continue reinforcing a two-block section of the structure located above the route of the future SR 99 tunnel. Both directions of ...

Kalama state Rep. Ed Orcutt wants the city of Seattle − and only Seattle − to pay for cost huge overruns on the infamous Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project. Orcutt proposed House Bill 2193 on ...

Linea Laird oversees the state Department of Transportation’s $3.1 billion Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project. She took over last fall after Ron Paananen, the longtime project director, left for ...

SEATTLE - The latest inspection of the Alaskan Way Viaduct found additional ground settlement, wider cracks and two new cracks on columns. Washington Department of Transportation inspection crews ...

We just got this announcement from the Washington State Department of Transportation:The Alaskan Way Viaduct will close this weekend between the West Seattle Bridge and the Battery Street Tunnel.

SEATTLE — A $4.2 billion tunnel beneath downtown Seattle is the best option to replace the crumbling Alaskan Way viaduct along the city’s waterfront, Gov. Chris Gregoire said Tuesday, as opponents ...

The demolition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct has finally come to close, leaving crews to finish clearing the final pieces of the viaduct project on Thursday morning. According to My NorthWest, concrete ...

RANT AND RAVE Rant to the old, dangerous, noisy, polluting Alaskan Way Viaduct. Good riddance. Rave to the new Alaskan Way waterfront — quiet, roomy, wonderfully landscaped, accessible with fantastic ...

The new State Route 99 tunnel is scheduled to open in early 2019, but not before the longest highway closure in Puget Sound history. Before the new tunnel opens to drivers, the Washington State ...