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The State Route 99 Tunnel Project
00000181-fa79-da89-a38d-fb7f2a000000Bertha, the world's biggest tunneling machine, is a five-story-tall monstrosity of drilling tasked with digging out the tunnel for State Route 99 to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. It's journey to the center of the earth underneath downtown Seattle began in July 2013, and since then the project has seen its fair share of successes and failures.Follow the progress of the $3 billion megaproject with KUOW.

This Week’s News Emerges Blinking Into The Light

KUOW | By Bill Radke
Published February 20, 2015 at 3:05 PM AKST
Crews chip away a circle on the southern wall of the pit that was built to access and repair Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine. Eventually it helped Bertha break through/
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Crews chip away a circle on the southern wall of the pit that was built to access and repair Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine. Eventually it helped Bertha break through/

Is this week the re-birth of Bertha? What’s the right punishment for a florist who won’t do gay weddings? And a Bellevue man is on the short list to go to Mars and never return. You’ll meet him, along with Q13 FOX’s C.R. Douglas, Jonathan Martin of the Seattle Times and the Seattle Channel's Joni Balter.

Today's Week In Review crew (clockwise, from top left): Joni Balter, Jonathan Martin, Bill Radke, hopeful Mars colonist Carl LeCompte and C.R. Douglas. Today's parting thought? In the words of '90s group KWS: 'Please don't go!' A photo posted by KUOW Public Radio (@kuow) on Feb 20, 2015 at 11:21am PST
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