Setback for the Highways England. Poor preparation is always costly.
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/lower-thames-crossing-huge-8m-4742098
Highways England have withdrawn the plans
"Thanks to expertise from Europe", New York City subway tunnel repair finished ahead of time and below budget.
National Gateway Initiative,
https://tunnelingonline.com/parsons-wins-acec-award-for-virginia-avenue-tunnel-project/
Parsons Corporation announced that the company's Virginia Avenue Tunnel Reconstruction (VAT) project won the ACEC Grand Award.
"Ireland’s longest-ever underwater horizontal directional drills"
More importantly it is in Cork. The second best place after Kerry.
https://www.thecork.ie/2020/03/20/video-a-1km-tunnel-drilled-under-cork-harbour-is-coming-into-use-irishwater/
#Eire #Ireland
21 March 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Successful completion of Ireland’s longest-ever underwater horizontal directional drills mark major milestone in Irish Water’s work towards ending discharge of raw sewage into Cork Lower Harbour Irish...
The Backstory: #Seattle’s transit story is a twisted tale of politics, mistakes and determination
“TRANSIT: THE STORY of Public Transportation in the Puget Sound Region” has a deceptively simple narrative arc: The region built a vast rail transit system, dismantled it in 1940 and...
We're being given a chance to have our say on changes made to proposals for a road tunnel between Kent and Essex.
Britain’s longest road tunnel project enters second phase of public consultation
The multi-billion pound project to build Britain’s longest road tunnel and the world’s third largest bore tunnel took a step closer with a second phase of public consultation beginning following recent amendments. Mocked-up images of the proposed...
San Francisco will spend $150 million to save a giant Lake Merced Tunnel sewer pipe.
Will it be enough?
https://sf.curbed.com/2020/1/3/21048142/lake-merced-tunnel-ocean-beach-plan-san-francisco
Circa-1896 Lake Merced Tunnel is critical to the city’s plumbing—and in danger from climate change
Washington DC: The costs of a deep-bored tunnel under Potomac versus a bridge
Although the Purple Line between Bethesda and New Carrollton isn’t expected to open until late 2022, transit advocates frequently talk about the possibility of extending it. The Purple Line is the area’s first major circumferential transit project,...
Federal review of Baltimore-Washington high-speed maglev project ‘paused’,
Some residents say Northeast Maglev has not provided answers to basic question about the project’s financing, how much it will cost to ride once completed, construction impacts on neighborhoods and the depth of the #tunnel.
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