Boring a tunnel is a very tedious job (the name of the operation gives it away), but one perfume salesman and space enthusiast has a different opinion. The Boring Company’s Elon Musk dreams that one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CAPE CHARLES, Va. (WAVY) — The tunnel boring machine known as Chessie broke through the receiving pit on Two Island at the Thimble ...

Already the largest project ever tackled by the Virginia Department of Transportation, the $3.8 billion Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion will kick into gear later this year when a $70 million ...

HAMPTON, Va. — On April 17, Mary the Tunnel Boring Machine emerged through the headwall at the Hampton end of the HRBT. Exactly six months later, she's starting her next journey: creating the twin ...

What’s 14 feet tall, weighs 380 tons, lives more than a hundred feet underground, and moves 1/4 mile per hour at its fastest? Alexandria’s new tunnel boring machine, of course! The massive blue and ...

SAN JOSE – The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority said Monday it authorized the purchase of the transit tunnel boring machine to complete the five-mile underground section of the VTA BART ...

Harriet was not quite ready for her close-up. The 950-ton tunnel boring machine named after African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman was hoisted about five feet off the ground Monday. But Metro ...

A boring machine needs a name. No, not boring — boring!Howard County is holding a naming contest for the boring machine that will be used in Ellicott City's north tunnel project.The tunnel will help ...