A jury has awarded the Washington State Department of Transportation $57.2 million in damages, after a two-month trial over delays in the downtown Seattle Highway 99 tunnel project.
The verdict, reached Friday against the tunnel contractors in Thurston County Superior Court in Olympia, represents the entire amount the state requested at trial.
— Seattle Times
Remember Bertha, once the world's largest tunnel-boring machine which, very inconveniently, broke down in 2013 after hitting a pipe while digging the Seattle Tunnel, delaying the megaproject for more than two years? A jury just sided with the Washington State Department of Transportation that the tunnel contractors were indeed to blame for the delay and thus owed $57.2 million in damages.
The four-lane Highway 99 tunnel beneath downtown Seattle eventually opened in February 2019.
To recall the massive scope of the SR 99 tunnel-boring machine, watch this video of a drone exploring Bertha's inner workings, published by the Washington State Department of Transportation in 2016.
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