Viaduct tunnel route could cost $3.5 billion
Ballard News Tribune - Seattle,WA,USA
A bored tunnel running under downtown from Royal Brougham to Roy Street may cost $3.5 billion. A cut-and-cover tunnel, $2.7 billion.
Tunnel vision: BHS geology class visits abandoned railroad tunnel
Bigfork Eagle - Bigfork,MT,USA
Recently, they put those skills to use again to map an abandoned railroad tunnel near Marion
Mile of London Tunnels for Sale, History Included
New York Times - United States
More Photos > By JULIA WERDIGIER LONDON — For sale: a vast tunnel complex in central London.
Tunnel vision: One man’s view from the Caldecott
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
By Janis Mara Supervisor Doug LaVallee, right, checks out the bore three portal tunnel of the Caldecott Tunnel
Bangalore Metro rail tunnel work starts in
SteelGuru - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
BMRCL has divided the underground tunnel project into two sectors which are 4 kilometer to 5 kilometer each, costing INR 1200 crore each sector
Big Becky’s over budget. Construction delays caused
Niagara Falls Review - Niagara Falls,Ontario,Canada
by loose rock will cause a “significant impact” on the cost of the Niagara Tunnel Project and its schedule for completion
MPs told Severn Tunnel is ‘hole’
BBC News - UK
Giving evidence to the Welsh affairs committee at Westminster, they said the Severn Tunnel was known as “the hole” by rail workers due to track problems.
REGION: Proposed tunnel project passes milestone
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
Gary Thompson, a Rancho Santa Margarita city councilman, has been involved with the tunnel project since it was first proposed a few years ago.
Attached site showing Tunnel Harry in the “Great Escape” as it was actually built during WW2. Be sure to scroll through the site and move from page to page. It’s an engineering feat showing the ingenuity of miners and even more amazing than the movie demonstrated.
www.kerman94.com/tunnelharry.html
Brightwater tunnel boring machine sees the light, marking major …
Nov 18, 2008 … Brightwater tunnel machine ends its 14-month journey in Woodninville. Tunnel boring machine “Luminita” emerged on the Brightwater treatment …
Railway consortium wins insurance battle
Globe and Mail - Canada
The device – known as a tunnel boring machine – presented a unique challenge to the engineering team that designed and constructed it.
Light at the end of the tunnel as two ends meet in middle
Timaru Herald - Canterbury, New Zealand
Pictured ripping up the tracks used by the tunnel boring machine are
Giant borer makes light work of sewer pipeline
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
For six months now, a boring machine has been drilling a 3km-long tunnel beneath Orakei and Hobson Bay to replace the ageing sewer
Lærdal Tunnel
By Sunil(Sunil)
Lærdal Tunnel (Norwegian: Lærdalstunnelen) is a 24.5 km (15.2 mi)-long road tunnel connecting Lærdal and Aurland in Sogn og Fjordane county in western Norway. Construction started in 1995 and was completed in 2000
Brunel’s Thames Tunnel
BBC News - UK
Designed by Marc Brunel, the Thames Tunnel was one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century. Running between Rotherhithe and Wapping.
NICE SLIDESHOW!!!
Haji Ali-Nariman Pt tunnel not feasible
Times of India - India
The government had asked the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) to conduct a feasibility study of the tunnel
Down, Down, Fixing New York’s Drinking Straw
New York Times - United States
… million project to prepare to fix the tunnel — which includes figuring out how to keep water flowing through New Yorkers’ faucets during the repairs
Seattle: UW Regents approve construction for UW light rail station
Sound Transit is in the final stages of preparing to break ground on University Link, a 3.15-mile underground line with stations at Capitol Hill and the University of Washington. It is an extension to the Link light rail line scheduled to open between downtown Seattle and Sea-Tac International Airport in 2009. The university station will be located near Husky Stadium, the UW Medical Center and research facilities, and will provide easy access to the main campus. The $1.9 billion University Link extension is expected to open in 2016 and add more than 70,000 daily riders to the system. With the Sound Transit 2 package that voters approved on Nov. 4, annual light rail ridership is projected to total more than 86 million by 2030.
Cost for viaduct options revealed
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Another tunnel, dug down below the waterfront, would cost $2.7 billion and a highway in a partially-lidded trench would cost $1.9 billion.
Plan for park atop Hollywood Freeway is praised, but motorists who …
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Design consultants say the one-mile tunnel would be brightly lighted, under full-time surveillance by closed-circuit TV and fully ventilated
France’s Vinci Unveils US Tunnel Contract Worth $299 Million
EasyBourse.com - Paris,France
Vinci signed the deal with the city of Detroit as leader of a joint-venture with the American contractor Frontier-Kemper Constructors Inc
Subway survivors in Hangzhou facing life choices
China Daily - China
The collapsed tunnel was part of a 69-km underground rail project being built by China Railway Construction Group Co Ltd.
Three Robbins EPBMs to Improve Mexico City Drainage
By admin
The Robbins EPBMs will bore Lots 3, 4, and 5 of the Emisor Oriente project in geology ranging from sandy clay and gravel to tuff and pumice. The tunnel lengths will be 9.6 km (6.0 mi), 9.7 km (6.0 mi), and 9.5 km (5.9 mi), respectively
Metro Vancouver digs deep to hire new contractor for twin-tunnel …
Journal of Commerce - Burnaby,BC,Canada
Metro Vancouver terminated BBC’s right to perform further work on the project. After almost a year with no work being undertaken on the twin tunnel project
Death toll rises to eight in E China subway tunnel collapse
Xinhua - China
Ltd (CTCEG), the subway project contractor, has been working with the social security and civil affairs departments of Hangzhou
Subway tunnel collapse in China
Seattle Times - United States
Vehicles are seen trapped and submerged at the site of a flooded subway tunnel after it collapsed in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province
Singapore: The City Beneath The City
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Every area must be carefully evaluated before any decision is taken, and this is what the Singaporean authorities want Norwegian tunnel experts
Hangzhou tunnel toll rises to seven
China Daily - China
By Wang Hongyi (China Daily) HANGZHOU: The death toll in Saturday’s subway tunnel collapse in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, has risen to seven
Nice Website for Metro in Hamburg (German only, but nice pictures)
China tunnel collapse kills three
BBC News - UK
At least three people have been killed and 17 more trapped when a half-built subway tunnel in the Chinese city of Hangzhou collapsed, state media says.
Environmental impact study for the southern access line to the Brenner Base Tunnel
At least 1 killed in collapse of Chinese subway tunnel
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
(Associated Press)At least one person died and 16 were missing after the collapse of a partially built subway tunnel Saturday in eastern China
Subway tunnel collapse leaves one dead, 18 missing
Xinhua - China
15 (Xinhua) — At least one person is dead and 18 are missing after a road caved in on a subway tunnel under construction in the eastern Chinese city
Marmaray train contract signed
Railway Gazette International - London,UK
TURKEY: Hyundai Rotem signed a €580m contract to supply the rolling stock for the Marmaray cross-Bosporus tunnel project in Istanbul on November 11
Lawari Tunnel : Chitralis 400-metre away from achieving …
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
By Zakir Hassnain PESHAWAR: A seminar on Lawari Tunnel, located between Chitral and Dir
Rs 130 billion Neelum-Jhelum Hydroelectric Power Project
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
… 2007 to M/s CGGC-CMEC Consortium China. Under the project, water from the Neelum River would be diverted through a 47km-long tunnel.
The making of the sewer tunnel 300 feet below Providence: Photo …
By Sheila Lennon
Peter Goldberg began photographing the Narragansett Bay Commission’s Combined Sewer Overflow project in 2004. An exhibit of his photos of the 3-mile-long, 26-foot-diameter, 250-foot-deep tunnel opens today
Villagers tunnel through mountain
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
Villagers in China spent five years hammering out a tunnel through a neighbouring mountain with primitive tools.
New tunnel restores quake damaged railway in NW China
Xinhua - China
12 (Xinhua) — A railway tunnel destroyed in the May 12 earthquake in northwest China has been rebuilt a month ahead of schedule and opened to traffic
Supporters make another push for tunnel under Tysons Corner …
The cost estimate for the first phase of the project that includes the Tysons Corner tunnel option is $2.4 billion
Filmmaker captures subterranean “Sandhog” World for History TV …
Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA
special, The Greatest Tunnel Ever Built, profiling New York City’s legendary urban tunnel workers (known as “Sandhogs”).
Amelia Rose has finally landed
Auckland stuff.co.nz - Auckland,New Zealand
By JODEAL CADACIO - North Shore Times | Friday, 07 November 2008 TUNNELLING THROUGH: The $10 million tunnel boring machine Amelia Rose is unveiled
Tunnellers’ toy will make light work of Bays’ rock
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
Project information and the tunnel-boring machine and railway equipment can be viewed on Sunday from 10am to 2pm at 6A Atlas Place
Iran Closes Historic Tunnel in Hormuz Island
Cultural Heritage News - Tehran,Tehran,Iran
Tehran, Nov 10, 2008: A historic tunnel in Iran’s Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf has been filled with soft soil in order to protect it from further
Tunnel upgrades at KU move full steam ahead
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
Standing in a 400-foot-long steam tunnel below the Kansas University campus
WVDOH Has Eye on Tunnel
Wheeling News Register - Wheeling,WV,USA
By FRED CONNORS The tunnel is an integral part of a $2.15 million operations center for a statewide Intelligent Transportation System initiative
RI ‘subway for sewage’ completed
Providence Business News - Providence,RI,USA
… 3-mile-long underground tunnel buried more than 250 feet below downtown Providence, the largest infrastructure project in the state’s history.
| Construction starts for Brisbane Airport link - ABC News … Construction starts for Brisbane Airport link … Matt Wordsworth reports construction has begun on Brisbane’s multi-billion dollar airport link project |
Tunnel vision Renovations provide safer travel for all
Bluefield Daily Telegraph - Bluefield,WV,USA
Much improvement has been made during the two-year project, including the cleaning of all tunnel drainage systems
News - London - Crossrail gets £230m BAA funding . BBC: Last updated: 4 Nov 2008
Heathrow Airport operator BAA announces a £230m funding package for the £16bn Crossrail project.. The City had agreed to make a “significant contribution to the future of Crossrail“, he said.
Eurostar shelves ad plans after Channel Tunnel fire
Marketing Week - London,UK
However, Eurostar is still at 93% of its total capacity and has also limited train speed inside the tunnel to just over 100mph
