The first four tunnel boring machines are coming to New Jersey to build the Gateway rail tunnel. Here's what they do and why they're the safest method.

NORTH BERGEN, N.J. — Disassembled sections of two tunnel boring machines that will help dig a $16 billion rail tunnel between North Jersey and Manhattan are on their way to the Garden State. The ...

On a flat, windswept green plain north of Hamburg in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, a Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine is now 200 meters deep into burrowing under the Elbe River estuary.

VIRGINIA BEACH — Now that the anchor’s away, expansion work at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is back at full bore. Burrowing of a new tunnel to help carry more vehicles between Virginia Beach and ...

This morning, the viewing public got its first look at the enormous boring machines that will soon be at work drilling a tunnel between the University District, Capitol Hill and downtown Seattle for ...

There are longstanding rivalries in the world of startups: growth versus discipline—innovation versus safety. There may be few places where this tension is playing out so plainly as it is at Elon Musk ...

Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging startup has selected Nashville for its next underground transportation project, despite concerns from local politicians. The Boring Company said the new transit system, ...

The Hudson Tunnel Project is marking another major milestone as it nears a critical point in the $16 billion process. During its Aug. 20 board meeting, Gateway Development Commission announced that ...

Mary, the enormous drill doing the bulk of the heavy lifting in the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project, began boring the second tunnel Thursday after a six-month break. She finished digging ...

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Mary, the tunnel boring machine for the new Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion, completed the first new tunnel at the HRBT’s North Island Wednesday morning, a major milestone ...

NEW YORK — The Gateway Development Commission board unanimously awarded a $1.8 billion contract Monday for one of the most expensive and complicated aspects of the $16 billion project to build a new ...

Sound Transit contractors are tunneling under downtown Bellevue, but you won’t find a big tunnel-boring machine like Seattle’s Bertha. The light rail tunnel will connect the East Main light rail ...