Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Bertha to Get Back To Work Soon

Vacation is over; it's back to work for Bertha this week, the Washington State Department of Transportation says. Bertha is the giant boring machine drilling under the city of Seattle to build the Highway 99 tunnel. It sat idle for almost two months after hitting a metal bar that stopped it in it's tracks.

The Seattle Times has an update.

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SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.

SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.