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January 2009 TunnelProject TunnelNews and Tunnel Projects

On Track for a Better Chinatown
AsianWeek - San Francisco,CA,USA
The construction of the tunnel itself will be done by an underground boring machine and, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

File:Tunnel Boring Machine (Yucca Mt).jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Tunnel boring machine at the construction of Yucca Mountain

On Track for a Better Chinatown
AsianWeek - San Francisco,CA,USA
The construction of the tunnel itself will be done by an underground boring machine and, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Working on NJ’s railroad
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
Critics of the tunnel project contend that the cost and replacement
of Portal Bridge should have been included in the ARC tunnel project.

Tunnel option was disliked by nearly everybody
Seattle Times - United States
Christine Gregoire dismissed the idea of replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel. A few weeks later, Seattle voters overwhelming rejected a tunnel
Sewer tunnel almost complete under Auckland’s Hobson Bay | NATIONAL
The custom-made machine is nearing the end of the three-kilometre tunnel under New Zealand’s largest city - an ambitious engineering project to relocate an old sewer pipe. The tunnel has been nicknamed Te Kaha, or the strength,

Third International Congress on Construction History,

20-24 May 2009, Cottbus, Germany

Following the success of the congresses in Madrid (2003) and Cambridge (2006),
the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus invites scholars, engineers and
the interested public from all over the world to the Third International Congress on
Construction History
in May 2009.

Shotcrete - Conference 2009
Welcome to our Conference
Prof. Wolfgang Kusterle and his team welcome you to the Conference and Exhibition Shotcrete2009 at the Alpbach Conference Centre, Tyrol, Austria, January 15 and 16, 2009.

China’s northern passenger railway on trial run
China Daily - China
The line runs through 94 bridges and 32 tunnels, including China’s longest mountain tunnel with a length of 27.8 km.

Viaduct tunnel idea rises again
Seattle Times - United States
And state predictions say a bored tunnel would drive costs far beyond the $2.8 billion the state has budgeted for the project. The so-called “bypass tunnel

Approval Given for New Jersey Rail Bridges
New York Times - United States
Mr. Sarles said that the two bridges were designed to line up with tracks leading to the new rail tunnel under the Hudson River that New Jersey Transit