Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation (JMRC) decides for the Jaipur Metro phase II, proposed between Sitapura and Ambabari a non-tunnel option and to construct the line above ground for cost...

Hoban TBM announced on the 17 March 2020 that it has won the construction of the Gripper Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) for the Dobongsan-Okjeong Metropolitan Railway Section 2. Size of contract is KRW 34.3 billion (US$ 28m). Hoban TBM is Korean...

Moscow's Big Circle Line (BCL) simultaneously launches two tunnel boring machines, each of them with a diameter of 10 meters. https://tunnelbuilder.com/News/Moscow-Western-Section-Big-Circle-Line-BCL-launches-TBMs.aspx

Consortium of Gulermak and Astaldi lowered the two TBMs to the shaft. The tunnel boring machines Anna and Maria will bore tunnels from the Bródno station to the Trock station. Maria will start her bore in begin April and Anna after about a...

On March 11, 2020, LGWM ('Let's Get Wellingron Moving') announced that Aurecon and Future Group would design and plan an extra Mt Victoria tunnel (and some other roads) supported by by local experts, from GHD and Jacobs. Press...

The Lower Thames Crossing will be a new connection between the counties of Kent and Essex. Critical part of the new route will be a twin bore tunnel crossing under the River Thames east of Gravesend and Tilbury. The crossing itself will cost...

  Despite earlier rumours for cancellation, the Stonehenge A303 tunnel is approved. Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor commits to £2bn plan to divert traffic under World Heritage...

  On Tuesday 10 March, Transport for London (TfL) disclosed the contract it made with the Riverlinx Consortium in November. The big surprise is, now the projects costs are not  £1Billion, but  £1.2Billion. It is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hjNWBUHuNk Salmankaş Tüneli is finished. A 3 hour journey now take half hour.  Salmankaş tunnel is one of many tunnels Türkiye buıild between Karadeniz (Blacksea) to Doğu Anadolu (East Anatolian)...

After remaining halted for about a year, the construction work on the crucial 6.5 km long Z-Morh Tunnel between Gagangeer and Sonamarg in Ganderbal district will restart from next month, officials...

  Infrastructure Ontario and Canadian public transport operator Metrolinx have published a request for qualifications for a public–private partnership to excavate a US$4bn tunnel for the Toronto...

  "Due to the challenging track conditions" and "because this line passed through the cultural preservation" phase II of Jakarta MRT from the HI Roundabout to the Kota Station is targeted for completion in 2024. Jakarta...

First expressway tunneling project with tunnel boring machine (TBM) began  expressway tunneling project for the first time in China. China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC) make TBM. The 15.36-km expressway tunnel is the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSz0I9_lAVU Trump administration continues to delay the an environmental impact report for the Gateway Tunnel Project. Without the environmental impact report, project cannot receive federal funding. This is what...

  Melamchi Water Supply Project, the biggest water project of Nepal. Tunnels to bring Melamchi water to Kathmandu to solve the drinking water problem in Kathmandu Valley. Project has support of Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the other with...

  Egypt newspapers say Egyptian international cooperation minister, Rania Al-Mashat say heis in talks with Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) to finance the second phase of development projects in Egypt’s Sinai...

  Italy and Switzerland work on a plan to transfer between two countries to an underground tunnel. It will be 4 kilometer long. The tunnel will replace the current road via the Brogeda crossing. With this tunnel, customs will be halfway...

  Currently some major infrastructure projects like the Western Harbour Tunnel are unfunded. New South Wales state government plans to sell its remaining 49% share on WestConnex to help fund such projects.Government had already sold its 51%...

It is gonna be a short tunnel. Only 1.6 miles long. In the morning, Capital Metro will officially present the plan to Austin City Council. It is part of Capital Metro's plans to reduce the congestion on Austin's roads. Other than the 1.6...

Project plan for new Palandöken tunnel ready. Preparatıons contınue for tender thıs year, 2020. Palandöken tunnel will be between the city of Erzurum and town of Tekman in south. Both cities in Doğu Anadolu (East Anatolia) region of...