Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In engineering, a term applied to a method of tunnel construction in which those portions which approach the surface are made by cutting down from above (instead of boring horizontally) and filling in with the excavated earth when the cut has been properly lined and roofed over.
- noun The cut-and-cover method of tunnel construction.
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Examples
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The batshit insane Wells is not getting his cut-and-cover tunnel.
Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010
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That marks a significant pro-tunnel shift from March 2007, when the cut-and-cover tunnel was overwhelmingly opposed by Seattle voters in the up-or-down advisory vote (70 percent opposed) while the rebuild fared better (57 percent opposition).
PubliQuestion: Few Voters Support McGinn’s Surface/Transit Option « PubliCola 2010
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While neither reached 50 percent support, the poll showed a strong shift in voters 'opinions on a tunnel since a March 2007 advisory vote in which 70 percent of voters opposed a cut-and-cover tunnel beneath Alaskan Way, the blog reports ..
Council Should Unite Behind McGinn On The Tunnel Cost Overrun Provision « PubliCola 2010
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Poor Wells thinks McGinn will build his cut-and-cover monstrosity if the deep bored tunnel is nixed.
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The batshit insane lunatic Wells isn't getting his cut-and-cover.
“Anyone Who Says There Aren’t Going to Be Cost Overruns Is Fooling Themselves.” « PubliCola 2010
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Rather than a simple head-to-head vote among the various replacement options (which local leaders rightfully feared would show the rebuild outpolling other options), voters were given two separate ballot measures, one asking for an up-or-down vote on the rebuild, the other for an up-or-down vote on the cut-and-cover tunnel favored by then-Mayor Greg Nickels.
PubliQuestion: Few Voters Support McGinn’s Surface/Transit Option « PubliCola 2010
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Is there any way Wells can jump into this conversation and stear it to the cut-and-cover tunnel? donaldee
Rob McKenna on List of State AGs Filing Suit Against Health Care Bill « PubliCola 2010
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But Greg Nickels liked the idea too, btw, after the cut-and-cover tunnel was decvisively rejected by Seattle voters in 2007.
PubliQuestion: Few Voters Support McGinn’s Surface/Transit Option « PubliCola 2010
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I love Grace Crunican and I hate the cut-and-cover.
McGinn Says He’ll Veto Tunnel Agreement; Council President Says Mayor is “Grandstanding” « PubliCola 2010
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The case is simple, did TransLink and the provincial government deceive merchants and business owners along Cambie St. to the scope of cut-and-cover subway construction and did the cut-and-cover construction hurt business.
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