What is happening for Wellington's transport? Not much on the extra Mount Victoria Tunnel side... The new Mt Victoria tunnel and an underground bypass near the Basin Reserve are not scheduled to be built until well after...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlfnd9u3dds&feature=youtu.be
Work has officially begun on the site where the tunnel boring machine will begin the big drill for Auckland's $4.4 billion City Rail Link project.
After a breathtaking...
The balance act goes on between the proponents and opposers of Great Lakes tunnel 100 feed below the Straits of Mackinac where the Lake Huron meets the Lake Michigan to replace the Line 5 oil pipeline.
The Labor bosses of Michigan place...
Minister of Transport, Lucian Bode estimates that in May the Romanian government will go for the tender for the design and execution of the planned Meseş tunnel. This is reported by Romania's Agerpres (link is at the...
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation's (BMRCL) own geological investigation for Phase 2 boring reveals hard terrain to bore. Of the 14 kilometre route, 34% is hard and weathered rock, 46% soil and remaining 20% is mixed geology. Hard rocks...
I think they opted for the best option. A metro bridge would be ugly and more expensive. Just think of the height of the oil tankers and other ships passing through the Panama canal.
A new metro line for Panama City will run through a tunnel...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgxhiFpJUlk
The tunnel boring machine Elektra is going to bore a tunnel under the capital of Sweden, Stockholm. The 13.4 kilometer long tunnel will be in the depths of 50 to 100 meters and will be bored through the...
One of his biggest projects, Melbourne's West Gate Tunnel construction is going through a project nightmare but Transurban CEO is talking about even more projects.
I don't know what to think about...
Swiss lay the final sleeper in the 2.7 kilometre Bözberg tunnel, the double track freight railway tunnel that does under the Jura mountain to be part of the line connecting the northern European ports and the Mediterranean. It will be...
Elon Musk bored "3,700 feet of dirt along the 4,300-foot length of one tunnel". How does it make "near halfway"?
It is twin tube tunnel. I am assuming both of the same length. 3700 < 4300. 600 feet is 600...
Ivan Tunnel excavation soon will start. Tunnel is part of A1 motorway between Tarčin-Konjic.
It is double tube tunnel with 1700 km long. Bosnian company Euro-Asfalt is building tunnel. Cost 57.6 million euro and 50 million come as...
After boring 2072 meters and laying 1381 rings, the Ø6.65m refurbished Robbins NFM slurry tunnel boring machine 1238 ("Tansa 1") operated by Doğuş-Soma JV made a breakthrough at the southern-end of Worli Station of Mumbai...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng0ZMgmjuJg
The respected Polish engineering news publication inzynieria.com reports that on January 13th, two CREG (China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd.) tunnel boring machines have started boring...
India's Railway Board approves the Detailed Project Report (DPR) to build a 10.7km railway line from Balaramapuram to Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram district (of Kerala state). A large part (9.02 km) of this railway line will be a...
Cologne Transport Director Andrea Blome pushes for more subway tunnels for Cologne. She says the city needs the additional tunnels up to 15 kilometers long and this is the moment to do it. The Greens in the City Council are fiercely...
The proposed Rosengarten tunnel in Zurich did not go well with the voters. As a matter of fact it has been flatly rejected.
The proposal was building a 2.3 kilometer long tunnel to solve the traffic congestion problem in the busy street...
Twin two-lane tunnels will accommodate four lanes of traffic for a total of eight lanes of capacity across the water and will be constructed as bored tunnels. Estimated completion in November 2025, while internal planning...
The Autorité des marchés publics (AMP) of Quebec adds six subsidiaries of the Montreal based Canadian engineering giant SNC Lavalin to its `ineligible to bid` RENA list. Companies in RENA list are excluded from public...
The mayors of Quebec City and Lévis both support the provincial government's new proposal for a 9 kilometer long tunnel linking the downtown cores of Quebec City and Lévis, after the CAQ government decided it is...