Drivers will notice a toll increase beginning on July 1. Rates will go up five cents during off-peak hours and increase 10 cents during peak evening hours. The new rates are reflected below, with the ...

On Tuesday afternoon, the Washington State Transportation Commission voted to raise the tolls by 3%. A 3% toll increase is a 5-cent increase during off-peak and morning hours, and a 10-cent increase ...

SEATTLE - The first round of inspections for the State Route 99 tunnel since the Alaska Way Viaduct demolition is about to get underway. While crews work on their tests, some closures will be in ...

Drivers making their way through Seattle will need to pay a little more, starting this summer. Tolls for Seattle’s State Route 99 tunnel, which passes beneath downtown, are set to increase by 3%, ...

The new State Route 99 tunnel is scheduled to open in early 2019, but not before the longest highway closure in Puget Sound history. Before the new tunnel opens to drivers, the Washington State ...

When the currently stalled Highway 99 tunnel project in Seattle is completed, drivers should pay at least a $1 toll and $1.25 for peak times in rush hour. That’s the recommendation Wednesday from an ...

More than a year before the new State Route 99 tunnel is scheduled to open to vehicles in Seattle, I took a ride Thursday from one end of the 2-mile tube to the other, beneath this booming city and ...

A heads up for drivers who regularly use the State Route 99 tunnel in Seattle. The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is closing the tunnel Friday night into Saturday for ...

The contractor digging a highway tunnel under Seattle is asking for $190 million in extra pay. Documents obtained by The Seattle Times show Seattle Tunnel Partners has asked for $62.6 million in ...

Nearly one-third of the Highway 99 tunnel’s upper road deck has taken shape, now that Highway 99 tunnel-boring machine Bertha has managed to consistently churn ahead since spring. The rotary machine ...

SHORELINE — Ten years ago the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine tripped over a steel pipe and stalled. Catherine Bassetti remembers the day. December 6, 2013. “Bertha stopped and my dad died,” ...