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Capitol Hill light rail station Web cams come online

Want to keep an eye on things behind the construction wall on Broadway?  There is a link to live web cams that follow the Capitol Hill and the UW station construction sites. You can view the cam here (Editor’s note: CHS has added it to a new page http://capitolhillseattle.com/lightrail on the site along with another cam we’ll tell you a little about, below.) It’s very user-friendly with zoom and pan features.


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I’m impressed with how quickly the digging on Capitol Hill has progressed.  According to Rhonda Dixon at Sound Transit, digging will continue until the end of the year (65 feet down).  The tunnel boring machine will be launched from the site towards downtown next year sometime between June and August.  After several months of boring the mile or so to Pine Street, the machine will be removed and returned to Capitol Hill to bore the 2nd tunnel to downtown.

Two tunnel boring machines from the UW site will launch next year towards the Capitol Hill site (the second being launched a month or so after the first).  According to Wilbert Santos of Sound Transit, those launches will commence July 2011.

For more information go to the Sound Transit website:

http://projects.soundtransit.org/Projects-Home/University-Link.xml

Note from jseattle: We’ve also added an independently provided view of the construction site from the Broadway Locksmith. Since they’ve gone to the effort to provide the cam, we asked them if it would be cool to display the live view on our site along with a promo for the shop. You can find the Broadway Locksmith cam at the bottom of http://capitolhillseattle.com/lightrail You can find the link to the light rail cams and Capitol Hill’s street traffic cams under the +Maps & Tools menu at the top of every CHS page.

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CHTim
CHTim
13 years ago

I walk my dogs by every morning checking on the progress.

Mike with curls
Mike with curls
13 years ago

I love construction sites, man and machines making major engineering projects happen.

This is just great …. and years to view, thanks.

SeattleBrad
SeattleBrad
13 years ago

Interesting, I suggested cameras many months ago so I’m glad to see them doing it.

archie1
archie1
13 years ago

…for the timelapse!

JeffW
JeffW
13 years ago

I agree! Be great to watch them drop the tunnel borer in.
Probably will show up on Discovery/History/Nat Geo in a few years.