And whatever happens, Seattle Tunnel Partners will be laughing all the way to
their offshore bank accounts.
"It's like a practical joke at this point, right?" That's what Heidi Groover asked me after I opened the e-mail from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). It announced that Bertha's restart and completion dates would be postponed another month behind schedule. This is the fourth time the state's contractor, Seattle Tunnel Partners, has pushed back the tunnel project's end-date.
