State Route 99

Kim Malcolm talks with reporter Carolyn Adolph about the risks faced by the state of Washington as it considers tolling the Highway 99 Tunnel.

Let's say you owe me $20.You decide that to pay me back, you'll set up a lemonade stand. There's about $50 in overhead: lemons, sugar. And don't forget…

You know the phrase: "You have to spend money to make money." That's the case for tolling the state Route 99 tunnel in Seattle.Washington state says it…

Drivers will have a free ride on the state Route 99 tunnel in Seattle when it first opens this fall. After a few months, however, expect to pay a toll of…

Soon, state Route 99 — and the rest of us —will have a new asset: a completed Alaskan Way tunnel.The $3.2 billion tunnel provides an earthquake-safe route…

When Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct was built in the 1950s, we didn't know much about earthquakes. California's Loma Prieta quake in 1989 opened our eyes…

The Seattle region has been growing so fast, there are now 400,000 more people here than in 2009, when we agreed to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a…

The downtown Seattle tunnel that will replace the Alaskan Way viaduct is edging closer to completion.The upper level of the double-decker highway is about…

Remember Bertha, and how lots of people thought it would never finish digging the two-mile tunnel beneath Seattle's waterfront?Well, the machine reached…