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What's In Bertha's Way?

caption: Bertha, the drilling machine digging out the SR 99 tunnel, has run up against an unknown impediment.
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Bertha, the drilling machine digging out the SR 99 tunnel, has run up against an unknown impediment.
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Marcie Sillman talks with Seattle Times transportation reporter Mike Lindblom about what may have halted Bertha, the huge tunneling machine in charge of digging the new SR 99 tunnel.

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