PCAD - Seattle Metro Transit, Bus Tunnel, Downtown, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - infrastructure - transportation structures - tunnels

Downtown, Seattle, WA

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The Bus Tunnel was retrofitted from 2000-200? to allow light rail to share the tunnel route. Previous tracks laid down in the 1980s did not accommodate the gauge used for the Downtown to the Airport Metro Transit rail line built in the late 2000s.

PCAD id: 8283

Publications

Shotwell, Seth, "Letters to the Editor: Design flaw could cost commuter his life", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, B7, 09/26/2007. Kridner, Jay, "Letters to the Editor: UnSound Transit stingily reproached", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, C3, 09/30/2007. "Pacific Northwest Computer glitch closes bus tunnel", Seattle Times, B3, 12/18/2007.