Category: Councilmember Rasmussen

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Commute Seattle

Commute Seattle, a not-for-profit transportation service organization working to provide alternatives to drive-alone commuter trips in an effort to improve access to and mobility through downtown Seattle.

Commute Seattle’s ambitious goal is to shift to 35,000 daily drive-alone commute trips to transit, cycling, walking and ridesharing by 2015.

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The goal is to make sure the launching pit is ready to receive the tunnel-boring machine early next year.

The launching pit alone is a massive project. Crews are currently digging hundreds of long, slender columns that reach about 100 feet below the surface. The columns, which are filled with concrete, will form the pit’s walls. Once those walls are in place, crews will dig out the center, clearing a space for the tunnel-boring machine to begin its journey