Timeline: Bertha's Two-Year Nightmare Before Christmas

Bertha's Two-Year Nightmare Before Christmas, and Why It'll Be a Miracle If the Tunnel Boring Machine Restarts by Dec. 23by Sydney BrownstoneAlmost exactly two years ago, our $80 million tunnel boring machine named Bertha went kaput. The machine, part of the state's $3.1 billion tunnel project to replace the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct along the Seattle waterfront, had drilled only a thousand feet (out of a planned 9,270) before hitting a steel well casing left in the ground by the state. Three da