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May 26, 2012
KPLU Local News
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Engineering a Tunnel Through the Basement of I-5
(2009-05-12)
(KPLU) - With all the highway construction underway this spring, you might hardly notice a freeway ramp closure in downtown Seattle, at Olive Way. But this is no mere paving project. It's part of a Sound Transit light-rail tunnel that will carve through the foundations of Interstate-5. KPLU science and health reporter Keith Seinfeld has more on this delicate engineering challenge:


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