To relieve the Frankfurt center of  too much crowd, Frankfurt will build a S-Bahn ring under the city. Currently Frankfurt's railway system is more like a star system with the main station in the center of the star. If you want to...

  We would like to share a great news with our members, something which was agreed long time ago, but we have waited for the WTC2020 Kuala Lumpur event to conclude. TunnelContact has become the Media Partner for the World Tunnel Congress...

China Railway No. 8 Engineering Group (CREC-8 Kunming Branch) finish bore of Ban Phoukeu Tunnel (8,936 meters). One of 10 tunnels longer 5 kilometer. Xinhua in English. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-09/22/c_139387502.htm

Bucharest's new M5 metro line took 9 years to complete. 5 Years delayed. Problems problems problems. Complete incompetence. Good article. https://www.euronews.com/2020/09/19/lack-of-competance-bucharest-s-delayed-metro-line-finally-opens

  The train connection between Greece's two most important cities Athens and Thessaloniki had to stop after a key tunnel is flooded. I know there have been some heavy rains recently, but tunnel...

The County Administrative Board now recommends the Swedish Transport Administration and the municipality of Söderköping to build a tunnel through the rock. This is a radio programme. I can read Swedish (similar to Danish/Norwegian) but...

Local Dutch news outlet GelreNieuws writes that during the maintenance works at Betuweroute tunnel, a worker got injured. The circumstances nor the nature of injury has not been disclosed. Betuweroute is a railway between The Netherlands...

  Vancouver is to choose between 5 different fixed link options across Burrard Inlet to the North Shore. The good news is 3 of them are tunnel options. A potential bad news is that privately the bridge options are favored (though this might...

For the second phase of the much-awaited Melamchi Drinking Water Project, Tunnel Boring Machine technology will be used to excavate the...

Development of the Phase II Integrated Moda Raya (MRT) Jakarta continues. For this, PT MRT will check the drainage structure in the way of the Tunne Boring Machine (TBM) by using Borehole Ground Penetrating Radar...

After Line-1’s first package (PC-04), the DMRC  has invited bids for the construction of the first underground package (PC-03) of Patna Metro’s 14.05 km Line-2 of the Phase...

Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) of Saudi Arabia completed the longest water pipeline tunnel project in the world, with a diameter of 8.4 meters and a distance of 12.5 km. Please read more in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqSdyEFVj7g Build, Build, Build chairperson, Anna Mae Lamentillo shared ongoing construction of a new tunnel that is part of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sdusSB0nsQ Melbourne City West Water’s Tunnel Boring Machine completes the works to install a 900 metre-long new sewer under Lonsdale Street. Project aims to upgrade the current sewer network is...

Groundbreaking ceremony of Chayouqianqi tunnel of Jidayuan high-speed railway project was in Ulanchabu, Inner Mongolia. Construction start with ceremony. http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/www.nmg.xinhuanet.com/xwzx/2020-09/17/c_1126504068.htm

Steve Masters, a local politician (West Berkshire councillor) has been arrested for being in a group of 15 protesters who were blocking the entrances to the HS2 South Portal Chilterns, tunnel site, the biggest construction site on the...

A piece by Søren Dahl in Danish A4 Arbejdsliv covers a development in Fehmarnbelt tunnel construction which is considered by many as an attemp of social dumping of labourers/ Danish trade unions accuse the Fehmarn Belt tunnel...

China Railway Fifth Bureau complete after 4 years and 5 months 11.34 kilometers Dapingshan Tunnel on Chengdu-Kunming Railway in Ebian Yi Autonomous County, Leshan City, Sichuan Province. Xinhua news agency inform tunnel pass 5 fault zones and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfDcCrdAVok Guizhou Mobile implement world first takes in achieving full coverage of 5G network Guiyang Metro Line 1. Download speed 813Mbps. Upload speed 95.8Mbps. China upgrade telecommunications...

Xinhuanet news give report constructor China Railway Bridge Bureau  two tube tunnel Jindou Tunnel longest in Guizhou Weiwei Expressway penetrated.  3,455 metre one tube 3,438 metre second tube....