Next year, the first modern tunnel-boring machines ever used in New Jersey will arrive in North Bergen to begin drilling the first mile of the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel through the rocky Palisades.
So much, with Seattle-area tunnel-boring machines, stems from Bertha. Pre-Bertha, we were blessed with giant underground drills named for heroic sled dogs — Balto and Togo — who helped deliver ...
The 900,000-pound machine that started boring a gargantuan sewage and stormwater tunnel under Seattle in 2021 at last burst into the open this month, completing its rocky 2.7-mile route in just under ...