#Terratec Tunnel Boring Machine assembly is underway to start boring secong metro line in Pune.
https://www.metrorailnews.in/digging-of-another-metro-tunnel-in-pune-to-start-in-january/
#MahaMetro #TBM
Lötschberg base tunnel reopened after a 6week closure due to water ingress.
https://www.railwaygazette.com/news/l%C3%B6tschberg-base-tunnel-reopened-after-water-ingress-mitigated/56360.article
#switzerland
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
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
The 8·76 m diameter #Herrenknecht TBM is due to be shipped t...month, and would be used to bore four single-track tunnels, totalling 4·5 km from Łódź...ska in the south to a junction with a double-track tunnel leading to Łódź Fabryczna.
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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
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
The 15.4-kilometer-long #Ceneri base tunnel is scheduled to go into service on December...neri 2020".
Vitta called the opening of the tunnel a "historic moment" for the c...https://www.letemps.ch/compte-rebours-lance-tunnel-base-ceneri
#Switzerland...
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 tunnels).
https://tunnellingjournal...