Contractors building a new highway tunnel under downtown Seattle have started digging a 120-foot pit to rescue a stalled boring machine named Bertha. Seattle Tunnel Partners also is pumping out ...

Digging resumed Thursday in a pit near the Seattle waterfront that will be used to repair a huge machine that broke down while trying to bore a highway tunnel under the city. The Seattle Daily Journal ...

Bertha, that gigantic, inoperable tunnel boring machine everybody loves to hate, finally might get out of that big hole it dug itself into. After an environmental review, Seattle Tunnel Partners, the ...