Washington

Andrea Watts - CEG Correspondent - Mon March 20, 2017

Elliot Bay Seawall Project Nearing Completion

After nearly three years of traffic and pedestrian detours throughout the city of Seattle's historic waterfront, the Elliot Bay Seawall Project is nearing its anticipated completion in spring 2017....

Lori Tobias - Mon February 20, 2017

WSDOT Expects to Have Point Defiance Bypass Operational This Fall

When Friday rolls around, crews on the Point Defiance Bypass Project are ready to attack their job building new rail line, but when Monday arrives, it's back to business for the railroad. It's a tightly synchronized operation of a $150 million project that will make rail travel all that more efficient in the corridor stretching from Vancouver, B.C....

Mon February 06, 2017

$550 Million Expansion Airport Expansion Project

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has officially broken ground on its North Satellite Modernization Project, which it says will expand and renovate the 44-year-old facility to better serve passengers and respond to continuing growth....

Mon January 23, 2017

USDOT Tool May Allow $2B for Seattle Projects

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that four transit projects in the Seattle area could receive up to nearly $2 billion in financing through an innovative infrastructure financing tool created by the Department of Transportation's Build America Bureau....

Gene Johnson - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon January 23, 2017

State Denies Sublease for Millennium Coal Export Terminal

Washington's outgoing public lands commissioner said he is refusing to allow the state's aquatic lands to be used for a major coal-export terminal along the Columbia River. But the company behind the proposal insisted the decision would have no effect on its plans....

Mon January 23, 2017

Port Commission Approves $5M for Lander Street Project

The Port of Seattle Commission approved $5 million for the city of Seattle's Lander Street Grade Separation Project, expected to cost a total of $140 million when complete. The city is seeking to finalize the design of the grade separation in summer of 2017 and begin construction early the following year....

Andrea Watts - CEG Correspondent - Mon January 23, 2017

Decommissioning of SR 520 Floating Bridge on Schedule

Since its opening in 1963, the state Route 520 Bridge provided Seattle and Eastside residents a shortcut across Lake Washington. By the 1990s, its 1950's design couldn't accommodate the increased number of vehicles crossing the lake, resulting in lengthy backups during rush hour....

Brad Broberg - Fri November 18, 2016

King Street Station Upgrades on Track

Nobody is happier about the improvements under way at the King Street Station than the conductors aboard the trains that stop at the historic Seattle terminal. The improvements will automate 21 switches that conductors currently must throw by hand....