Queen to make battlefield ‘first’
BBC News - UK
Another quirk of the construction project was that the main tunnel was blessed. Superstitious workers placed an icon of Saint Barbara - the patron saint
Seeking the truth on what’s buried beneath Brooklyn
Boston Globe - United States
The nonprofit Brooklyn Historic Railway Association conducts tours of an old tunnel under Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. Railway cars and horse-drawn wagons …
Eurotunnel, Back From Brink, May Bid for High Speed UK Line
Bloomberg - USA
The track forms the British section of the Channel Tunnel route from London to Paris, used by Eurostar Group high-speed trains.
China’s Spectacular Gouliang Tunnel
By Jennifer Gregory
A man by the name of Shen Mingxin was the leader of the village during the time the decision was made to build the tunnel. He mandated that all members of the village participate in the project in some way, shape, or form.
Massive tunnel boring machine launched
Hindu - Chennai,India
ONGOLE: A massive tunnel boring machine (TBM) began drilling through the Nallamala hill range on Thursday to bring water to parched areas in Prakasam
2nd boring machine stuck in kingco sewage tunnel
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
AP SEATTLE — A second tunnel boring machine has broken down while digging the outlet for a new King County sewage treatment plant near Woodinville
A23 widening scheme questioned
West Sussex Today - Worthing,England,UK
The A3 Hindhead Tunnel - was estimated at £107 million, but will now cost £372 million – an increase of 248 per cent.
Myanmar’s ’secret tunnels’ revealed
Aljazeera.net - Qatar
The tunnel project, reportedly given the codename “Tortoise Shells by Myanmar’s military, is believed to have been implemented with North Korean involvement
Rising costs put the brakes on dozens of roadbuilding projects
Times Online - UK
The Hindhead tunnel, designed to relieve congestion on the A3 in Surrey, was expected to cost £107 million but now the agency expects a bill of £372 million
Water under the bridge
Sandy Post - Gresham,OR,USA
By Shannon Wells A new tunnel being constructed underneath the Sandy River … good day,” says Jarrett Carlson, project supervisor with Kiewit Pacific Co
Well met sewer tunnels completed
Timaru Herald - Canterbury, New Zealand
However, work had been disrupted when the boring machine, working from the Ashbury Park end, hit a mix of basalt, clay and rock a couple of weeks ago.
Hard Rock Herrenknecht Tunnel Boring Machine (May 20 - 22, 2009 …
Herrenknecht S-234 Single Shield Hard Rock TBM located will be sold at Ritchie Bros. May 22 Los Angeles auction. It will be sold to the highest bidder,
Light rail contstruction noise meeting: Big walls, new crosswalks …
CHS Capitol Hill Seattle - Seattle,WA,USA
It’s safer to keep the tunnel boring machine operating. (though the ST slide lists these factors: Maximizes project safety, efficiency, duration and cost)
Abandoned no more: 2nd life drilled into old 7 subway platform
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
In about one year, a bedrock-chomping tunnel-boring machine working its way from 26thSt. and 11th Ave. is expected to reach the cavern
Alpine’s lucky day with double deal
Wiener Zeitung - Wien,Austria
Construction company Alpine Bau GmbH has won two new contracts for almost 100 million Euros, it was revealed yesterday.
Tunnels for Krasnaya Polyana – Adler Highway Are Under …
May 6, 2009 … 27.05.09 Tunnels for Krasnaya Polyana – Adler Highway Are Under Construction. 21.05.09 Construction Works in Sochi Are Well on Track
Delhi Metro completes tunnelling of Qutub MinarSaket stretch …
New Delhi Delhi Metro achieved the final breakthrough of the tunnelling of the difficult Qutub MinarSaket stretch by successfully using an Australian
Slow and steady progress at Devil’s Slide tunnel project 61909 San …
A fascinating look at the painstaking work on the tunnel at Devil’s Slide
Big Becky picks up the pace
Niagara Falls Review - Niagara Falls,Ontario,Canada
As Marko Sobota fires Big Becky up to a fast-paced 2.8 metres an hour, he says things are going “a lot better” now
Tunnel vision: Swiss can’t wait to party (Reuters …
Reuters - Face covered with dust, a tired miner scrambles through a tiny gap linking two parts of what will be the world’s longest rail tunnel, clutching a gold colored statuette of saint Barbara
Update on Gautrain’s progress
Sowetan - Soweto,South Africa
Inside the tunnel bored by the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), casting of the invert slab concrete works, on which the railway lines will be installed
Europe accelerates the ERTMS North-South rail freight axis
eGov monitor - London,UK
It involves major European infrastructure projects among which at first rank the Brenner Base Tunnel. Using ERTMS for this corridor will greatly facilitate
Brightwater tunnel machine temporarily idle
Woodinville Northwest News - Woodinville,WA,USA
Because of reduced construction activity, Brightwater contractor Vinci/ Parsons/Frontier-Kemper/RCI, a joint venture, laid off about 60 construction workers
