Doing the lotus position less than 200 feet from the viaduct. To the left is Seattle Public Utilities’ GPS monitoring station. Kelly O
Reaching the bottom of the tunnel boring machine’s access pit certainly seemed like good news. Bertha has been stuck between Jackson and Main Streets—just 1,000 feet into its two-mile journey—since December of 2013. Washington State Department of Transportation administrators looked peppy and refreshed on February 9 when they shared news with the Seattle City Council that their contractor had poured 1,000 cubic yards of concrete into a cradle that would hold the broken parts of Bertha as workers got the machine out…
