Monday, January 6, 2014

Mystery Item That Stopped Drilling Under Seattle Identified

Mystery solved. I blogged last week about a mystery buried object  that had stopped Bertha, the world's largest tunnel-boring machine that is drilling a tunnel under Seattle. That object turned out to be nothing more than a metal pipe. So how could such a minor item stop such a mighty machine? And are there more obstacles in Bertha's way? Plus, how much will the delay caused by the pipe add to the project? The New York Times has the answers.


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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.