Dubai Municipality’s (DM) deep tunnel project to drain rainwater and groundwater is 75% complete, according to the director general, Dawoud Al Hajri.
https://www.constructionweekonline.com/projects-and-tenders/262036-dubai-municipalitys-6806m-deep-tunnel-project-75-complete
A wastewater treatment tunnel whose construction took 11 years was inaugurated by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the Mexican municipality of Huehuetoca.
https://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=50284&SEO=mexico-inaugurates-wastewater-treatment-tunnel-after-11-years
#Mexico
The 8·76 m diameter #Herrenknecht TBM is due to be shipped to Łódź (Poland) later this month, and would be used to bore four single-track tunnels, totalling 4·5 km from Łódź...iska in the south to a junction with a double-track tunne...
Nurdağı Tunnel on Gaziantep-Adana YHT (High Speed Train) will Türkiye's longest rail tunnel.
5 Hour 20 minute train travel will become 1 hour 30 minute
https://www.haberturk.com/tamamlandiginda-turkiye-nin-en-uzun-tuneli-olacak-2557925-ekonomi
#China "Belt and Road" freight train runs through İstanbul's Marmaray tunnel under Boğaziçi between Asia and Europe.
https://www.railwaygazette.com/free-uk-e-mail-newsletter/transit-freight-train-runs-through-the-marmaray-tunnel/55079.article
#beltAndRoad
InfraBuild.supplies the first batch of 100,000-tonne reinforcing steel to Melbourne West Gate Tunnel Project’s Footscray launch site.
https://infrastructuremagazine.com.au/2019/12/17/australian-reinforcing-steel-for-melbournes-west-gate-tunnel/
#Victoria #tunnelling
The 15.4-kilometer-long #Ceneri base tunnel is scheduled to go into service on December 13, 20...me "Ceneri 2020".
Vitta called the opening of the tunnel a "historic moment" for the c...sure.
https://www.letemps.ch/compte-rebours-lance-tunne...
Transport for London (TfL) confirms that the #Riverlinx consortium is appointed to design, build, finance and maintain the #Silvertown Tunnel (1.4km long, $1.4bn, 12.3m diameter twin-bore road tunne...
Michigan: Construction of a $500 million tunnel to house a new Enbridge Line 5 crude oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac is constitutional, the Court of Claims ruled Thursday.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/10/31/enbridge-line-5-tunnel-constitutional/4113289002/
#Maharashtra: Metro #tunnel boring trial starts.
Full survey of the route is not yet completed because of resistance from the residents.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/metro-tunnel-boring-trial-starts-at-agriculture-college/articleshow/72447463.cms
#india #TBM #tunnelling