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Re:Drone footage of Seattle's new 57 foot SR 99 tunnel [video] by mc32 on Saturday October 21, 2017 @01:37AM (#15520828)
That's a great point, I failed to realize. This is a two-deck tunnel, so the price increase might not have been as steep.

In any event, some of the original proposals were for six lanes --wished they'd carried that out.

Re:Drone footage of Seattle's new 57 foot SR 99 tunnel [video] by khuey on Saturday October 21, 2017 @02:37AM (#15520931)
It was also already the world's largest tunnel boring machine.
Re:Drone footage of Seattle's new 57 foot SR 99 tunnel [video] by pygy_ on Saturday October 21, 2017 @02:52AM (#15520961)
Even a 4/3 multiplication of the diameter would have ~doubled the cross-section surface.