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Himachal seeks railway till Leh to counter China
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
The Himachal Pradesh government has suggested that the rail link should be included in the over nine km long all-weather Rohtang Pass tunnel being built

Tunnel firm sought to redo contract
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
It is also consulting with the other two bidders, Peter Kiewit Sons and Frontier-Kemper Constructors, about possibly taking over the job

Tunnel earns a shield of honor
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
The city announced yesterday that it has completed the structural construction of the eastern tube of the tunnel that will connect Pudong and Changxing

Boring machine stuck in Vaughan muck
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
When the muck started coming into the 3-metre-wide tunnel, “it poured,” project manager Tomislav Hrkac said yesterday

China earthquake: aftershocks continue to devastate region
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Almost 2000 soldiers, armed with dynamite and using a mechanical digger landed by helicopter, hope to have dug a drainage tunnel through the dam

German firm terminated in filtration tunnel project
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
Morrell said Metro Vancouver has already begun talking with two of the other original bidders on the project

A3 tunnel vision is getting clearer now
Petersfield Today - Petersfield,England,UK
These pictures may cheer up motorists stuck in traffic waiting for the Hindhead tunnel to be built. They show clearly that the £371m tunnel

Chinese agencies to channel budgets into earthquake relief
International Herald Tribune - France
AP CHENGDU, China: A woman trapped in a tunnel at a power plant was rescued nine days after an earthquake struck central China - the only person found alive

Niagara tunnel project far behind schedule
Hamilton Spectator - Hamilton,ON,Canada
Digging on the Niagara tunnel project has passed the two-kilometre point, but work is so far behind on the $630-million project that officials are reviewing

‘Tunnel‘ links New York to London
BBC News - UK
If you believe artist and inventor Paul St George then his “Telectroscope” connects New York and London via a (very) long tunnel running through the earth’s

Detroit mayor’s office confident tunnel deal will pass
Windsor Star - Ontario, Canada
Detroit city council has voted to leave the proposed $75-million tunnel deal out of this year’s budget

Tunnel Under Omaha Leads Off $1.5B Sewer Project
KETV.com - Omaha,NE,USA
The city of Omaha is about to take the next major step in its biggest public works project ever: a $1.5 billion sewer overhaul. A tunnel will be dug

Check check, Banksy “Notorious graffiti…
“Notorious graffiti artist Banksy recently gathered 40 of his street-art peers to transform a London railway tunnel into an exhibition space. Cheekily dubbed the Cans Festival , the tunnel project came together quickly

Leighton and Macquarie team up for $4.8 billion Brisbane project
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
LEIGHTON Holdings and Macquarie Group’s win of Australia’s biggest road and tunnel project, the $4.8 billion Brisbane Airport Link

Australia’s ‘largest road project‘ gets go-ahead
ABC Online - Australia
The consortium will build Brisbane’s 7.5-kilometre airport link toll tunnel, the next section of the northern busway, and a new flyover to alleviate

No. 109 tunnel cleared
央视 - Beijing,China
109 tunnel has been cleared. Emergency workers are scrambling to pulls rail cars loaded with gasoline from the tunnel.

Campbell Newman welcomes new transport infrastructure
ABC Online - Australia
… for $4.8 billion worth of contracts the next section of the Northern Busway, a flyover at the Brisbane Airport roundabout and the Airport Link tunnel

Tunnel supporters continue fight to take Metro under Tysons Corner
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Supporters of a tunnel under Tysons Corner maintain hope that the $5 billion Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport won’t be above ground

Full bore for the desal plant
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader - Sydney,NSW,Australia
The first 140 metres of each tunnel was cut with a road header in just two weeks, claimed to be a world record. Two massive tunnel boring machines

Mayor to retain newspaper column
BBC News - UK
“I was very glad he confirmed his 100% commitment to Crossrail, which will go ahead,” Mr Johnson said, referring to the much-delayed £16 billion train

Brenner Tunnel
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano symbolically laid the foundation stone of the Brenner railway tunnel on 28th April; the tunnel will link Austria

The Level Tunnel
By today and tomorrow - pieter
‘The Level Tunnel‘ is a project for Level Vodka, designed by Hussein Chalayan. The tunnel a 15 meter long, 5 meter high, glass installation that captures the essence of Level Vodka. Visitors can walk through the tunnel blindfolded

In the pipeline
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
The inter-state raw water transfer project includes a 30m rock-filled dam across Sungai Kelau near Bentong, a 4090ha reservoir and a 45km tunnel

DavyMarkham sends 320t cutterhead to China
Contract Journal - UK
… has manufactured a 320t cutterhead for a 12.4m diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM) and despatched it the mountains of Sichuan Province, China.

Patroness of the Canada Line keeping tunnel workers safe
B.C. Catholic Newspaper - Vancouver,Canada
The sound produced by the grinding teeth of the colossal tunnel-boring machine and the cacophony of noise associated with construction sites was silenced

Dulles Metro Extension Still Faces Hurdles
Washington Post - United States
By Sandhya Somashekhar The future grew brighter last week for the proposed Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport

RDC 2 endorses North Eastern Luzon Expressway project
Philippine Information Agency - Philippines
The proposed project will make up the construction of a huge tunnel which he said could help avoid the strong possibility of soil erosion

New Hudson rail tunnel would be a boon

In pictures: Banksy’s tunnel gallery
BBC News - UK

Graffiti artist Banksy has turned a south London tunnel
into a half-mile long exhibition space, but the elusive artist kept its location secret