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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Bid for first major University Link light rail contract beats Sound Transit estimate

More good news today from Sound Transit:
The University Link light rail extension moved closer to construction today as six bids on the first major construction contract came in below cost estimates. Condon Johnson & Associates, Inc. is the apparent low bidder with a $19.4 million bid to prepare the area where a tunnel boring machine will pass beneath Interstate 5 in downtown Seattle, with a bid 34 percent below the $29.6 million engineers’ estimate.
Assuming Condon Johnson gets the bid, they'll be working to prepare an area on two sides of Interstate 5 for light rail tunnel boring. A machine that will presumably be similar to the Emerald Mole (which drilled the Beacon Hill Tunnels) will be used to create a new underground corridor for Link trains to run through from downtown Seattle to the University of Washington.

Congratulations to Sound Transit for once again successfully fulfilling its commitment to under promise and over deliver.

Let the construction of University Link begin!

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