Contract approved for Sound Transit University Link tunnel work

Written by jrood

The Sound Transit Board on Thursday unanimously approved a contract to dig twin-bored tunnels between the Capitol Hill Station and downtown Seattle for the University Link light rail extension. The contract, with JCM U-Link Joint Venture, is for $168.9 million, which includes a 10 percent contingency. The firm's bid was 12 percent below the engineer's estimate.

Construction is
under way on the 3.15-mile U-Link project that extends light rail from Westlake
Station in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel to the University of Washington
with stations at Capitol Hill and on the University of Washington campus near
Husky Stadium. University Link is scheduled to open in 2016 and add more than
70,000 daily riders to the system.

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