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New path for future urban development: Exploring diverse and composite utilization of underground space
As urbanization progresses, Chinese cities are experiencing rapid growth in terms of the development and utilization of underground...
Sweden's Torsby Ski Tunnel
As a weekend teaser. Yes, Sweden has a ski tunnel which was built in 2005 and 2006 and cost SEK 61 million. 1.3 km long. It is also 8 meters wide and 4 meters high. Photo: ChrisPsi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Stad Skipstunnel Project. The World's First Tunnel For Ships
https://urbantransportnews.com/news/stad-skipstunnel-project-the-worlds-first-underground-tunnel-for-shipsChina’s hyperloop is fastest high-speed train in history
The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation ran a test and a high-speed train, using maglev technology, has broken its previous record of 387mph. https://en.as.com/videos/chinas-hyperloop-is-fastest-high-speed-train-in-history-v/This is how Norway plans to save billions of kroners in construction costs of 233 km long tunnels and in renovation of existing ones
An expert group in the Statens vegvesen (the Norwegian Public Roads Administration) thinks it is possible to save about NOK 5.4 billion at the building tunnels in a simpler but adequate manner, in 20 national roads. The expert group has...
Melbourne Metro Tunnel // How will it change the network?
This video looks at those changes, as well as some claims made by the official government website for the project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp5A4gRFHhMStunning drone footage shows wolves digging tunnels through deep snow in northern China
Drone footage shows a pack of wolves digging tunnels through one-meter-thick snow in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous...10 Cities With the World’s Oldest Subway Systems
London 1863 Istanbul 1875 Chicago 1892 Budapest 1896 Glasgow 1896 Boston ...Tunnel boring machine empowers construction of 22 km long expressway tunnel in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRus4Oj-7Ig 22 km long Tianshan Shengli tunnel an important piece of 1300km long expressway linking Urumqi and Yull county in central Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. Tunnel Boring Machine...
Europe's most impressive (and lesser known) tunnel projects worth billions of Euros
A bit popular perspective but worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHCMESgGLCMHow the City Loop transformed Melbourne
A brief summary of how City Loop was built in 1970s, now in the eve of the Suburnan Rail Loop project. I am surprised that a government site uses such a combative language "so-called experts, ...". The City Loop –...Not only in Japan! Also in Turkey some contractor bores into a train tunnel with geological survey drill
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8rme6q Unbelievable. Building contractors over the ground keep boring into the tunnels underneath for "geological surveys". It happened several years ago in Japan when somoone drilled into a train...
Flooding in Thames Tunnel strands thousands at New Year as Eurostar cancelled
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67846863Ukraine blows up Siberian railway tunnel linking Russia-China trade corridor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSEo8VLaQKk I read this crazy attack 10 days ago. It is today also very important geopolitic event. "The first explosion hit a tanker train in the Severonomuisky tunnel in Buryatia early Thursday, causing a...
After 20 years under construction, the Pajares rail tunnel in northwest Spain is finally open.
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/12/10/spains-new-high-speed-train-whisks-you-to-glacial-lakes-and-rugged-beaches5 Tunnel Collapses in 6 Days! Tofu-Dreg Roads, Railways, Bridges Rampant in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYPwXluIDvs
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