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Switzerland's Mega Tunnel Sets Record

Posted by Soulskill on from the what-a-bore dept.

Anonymous Dupaeur writes "Switzerland, co-home of CERN and numerous other world organizations, has come closer to the completion of their recent megaproject: the Gotthard Base Tunnel, which will be the largest railway tunnel made by man. The project is due to be completed in 2017, and will host 200 to 250 trains a day with a significantly larger kinetic energy than the LHC's beams." After the completion of today's work, the tunnel is now 57 kilometers long, surpassing Japan's 53.9-kilometer Seikan Tunnel. There are a few longer tunnels in existence, such as the 137-kilometer Delaware Aqueduct, but they all move water rather than people.

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  1. Re:Good for them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FWIW, just cause i want to say it,

    Fuck Bush. Worst president ever.

    Taft was far less daft than the douche we call bouche.

  2. Re:Good for them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The terrorists destroyed very little infrastructure. It's just that some of it was famous.