Dulles Rail Back on Track
Reston Connection - VA,USA
By Mirza Kurspahic Restonians may see the beginning of construction for the first of two phases of metrorail to Dulles Airport sooner than they think.
Bright future at end of Tyne Tunnel - video report
Shields Gazette - South Shields,England,UK
By Terry Kelly THE historic launch of the £260m second Tyne Tunnel scheme will spark huge economic and environmental benefits for South Tyneside
Ancient tunnel found near Chinese palace
Archeologists have uncovered a 2000-year-old tunnel in China that experts believe might have been an escape route for the emperors
Turf cut to mark new Tyne tunnel
BBC News - UK
The first turf is to be cut to mark the construction of a second Tyne tunnel between North and South Tyneside
| Interview: Tim O’Toole US lawyer driving the turnaround on the tube guardian.co.uk - UK He warns that Crossrail, a £16bn project for a train service through central London, should not detract from the tube. |
First-Temple era tunnel found in J’lem
Jerusalem Post - Israel
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS A water tunnel dating back to the First Temple era - but that might have been used even earlier, during King David’s conquest
Shield achieves the right balance
EastDay.com - Shanghai,China
… developed by China, which has a diameter of 11.22 meters, at the construction site of the Dapuqiao Tunnel, linking Pudong and Puxi in Shanghai.
Hydro One dig on hold for Santa
TheBulletin.ca - Toronto,ON,Canada
The tunnel boring machine was pulled from the depths of John Street (beside the CBC Broadcast Centre) on Oct. 29.
Two Thousand Year Old Tunnel Found in Shaanxi Province, China
The Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
The tunnel, buried for nearly 2000 years, is intact and is filled with mud. An archaeologist said that the tunnel might have been built as an escape route
FCC builds a water main tunnel in China (#399)
FCC, through its Austrian subsidiary ALPINE, is building a 25-kilometre water main tunnel in Pinglu, located in the Chinese province of Shanxi, west of Beijing; the project will cost 47 million euro.
Colombia to build 1800 km highway to link with Venezuela
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
The Inco director also said that eight firms, including companies from Spain, South Korea, Italy, China and Brazil, had expressed interest in the tunnel
National Grid’s Woodhead Tunnel Cable Replacement Project Underway
High-voltage cables installed in the disused Victorian railway tunnels in the 1960s, to bring new electricity supplies to the Manchester, UK area from power stations east of the Pennines area nearing the end of their operational life
Yosemite Tunnel Gets New Look
KMPH Fox 26 - Fresno,CA,USA
The $3 million dollar project was accomplished through funding by The Yosemite Fund and the National Park Service
It’s boring work but we’re more than halfway through it
Portsmouth News - Portsmouth,England,UK
The exhibition runs from 10am to 4pm at Grayshott Village Hall, Hindhead.
London tunnel network put on sale
BBC News - UK
The Kingsway Tunnels were built in 1940 as deep air-raid shelters which could accommodate 8000 people. They have since been used as a public record library
Fastest Trains in the World
By CHARMINGBOY(CHARMINGBOY)
The CRH2 is one of the high-speed train models in China. The CRH2 is a modified E2-1000 Series Shinkansen design, and represents the second Shinkansen train model to be exported, the other being the 700T series for Taiwan High Speed
Sewer Diving: A Journey Inside Milwaukee’s Deep Water Tunnel
Scientific American - USA
By David Biello Since 1994, a more than 26-mile- (42-kilometer-) long tunnel has been keeping Milwaukee’s sewage from spilling into Lake Michigan.
TURKEY COMPLETES A MAJOR STEP IN THE MARMARAY PROJECT
Eurasia Daily Monitor - Washington,DC,USA
Erdogan called the Marmaray project, first planned by Ottoman authorities in 1860, the realization of a 148-year-old dream.
Tunnel under ski run collapses in Mammoth Lakes
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Mammoth Lakes spokesman Stuart Brown told me today that as part of that project, the contractor had stripped the dirt away from the original tunnel
Massive Bay pipeline project will protect water supply
Tri Valley Herald - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
… through Redwood City, Menlo Park and East Palo Alto to the Fremont hills and out to the new Irvington Tunnel, another ongoing project of the SFPUC
Questions arise how T plans to fund $1b Silver Line project
Boston Globe - United States
By Noah Bierman With Big Dig construction still fresh in Bostonians’ memories, the MBTA is embarking on a 1.1-mile bus tunnel adjacent to the Boston Common
Tunnel deal brings rail loop step closer
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
By Mathew Dearnaley Planning for a $1 billion-plus rail tunnel between downtown Auckland and Mt Eden has cleared its first big hurdle
TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL – Looking Back Toward the Future
By morlockjeff
Imagine a tunnel under the Atlantic that connected the United States with Europe and provided a high speed form of transportation between the two points. It’s certainly not an unrealistic expectation for the near future
Kumho Asiana Group Chairman Suggests Joint Research Project for …
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
Chairman Park said at the BSR that opening an undersea tunnel between Japan and Korea and then linking it to a tunnel between Korea and China
Digging a hole
Fall River Herald News - MA, USA
“We’re trying to move along as fast as we can,” Sullivan said of the city’s largest capital project ever. To connect the nine drop shafts to the main tunnel
Fire stripped off Channel Tunnel lining
New Civil Engineer - London,England,UK
Large chunks of the fire damaged concrete lining in the Channel Tunnel have fallen off, the lead French investigator into the blaze on 11 September
PM dedicating Baglihar Power Project to people
Etalaat - Srinagar,Jammu and Kashmir,India
… components of the project include 143 meters high concrete gravity dam, 2.08 meter long and 10.5 meter dia concrete lined circular head race tunnel
Skanska: Skanska’s Contract for Tunnel Through HallandsAs …
MarketWatch - USA
The Skanska-led (STO:SKAB) consortium Skanska-Vinci HB’s contract to construct the dual-track railway tunnel through HallandsAs has been increased.
Wheelchair race through tunnel
News Guardian - North Tyneside,England,UK
By NEWS REPORTER DAME Tanni Grey Thompson officially launched the world’s fastest wheelchair race at the Tyne Tunnel last week
Have a look to this excellent Tunnel-Website of ISLISBERGTUNNEL!!!!
German language only but pictures and videos tell a lot about 11,8m Diameter and 4,95 km long TBM Rock-Tunnel in Switzerland
No light at the end of the metro tunnel
Budapest Times - Hungary
The engines of the giant drills digging the tunnel of Budapest’s metro line four were switched off last Monday
GIant TBM, Possibly for Niagara Tunnel Project
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