The Longest Tunnel in The World

The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is a railway tunnel in the heart of the Swiss Alps expected to open in 2016. With a route length of 57 km (35.4 mi) and a total of 151.84 km (94.3 mi) of tunnels, shafts and passages, it is the world's longest rail tunnel, surpassing the Seikan Tunnel in Japan. Its main purpose is to increase total transport capacity across the Alps, especially for freight, notably between Germany and Italy, and more particularly to shift freight volumes from road to rail to reduce environmental damage caused by ever-increasing numbers of heavy lorries. A secondary benefit will be to cut the journey time for passenger trains from Zürich to Milan by about an hour and from Zürich to Lugano to 1-hour 40 minutes. The project consists of two single-track tunnels. It is part of the AlpTransit project, also known as the New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA), which includes the Lötschberg Base Tunnel between the cantons of Bern and Valais and the under construction Ceneri Base Tunnel (scheduled to open late 2019) to the south. It bypasses the Gotthardbahn, a winding mountain route opened in 1882 across the Saint-Gotthard Massif, which is now operating at capacity, and establishes a direct route usable by high-speed rail and heavy freight trains. The total cost of the project is 9.8 billion Swiss francs, or US$10.3 billion. When completed, the Gotthard Base Tunnel will be one of the longest tunnel construction projects in the world: 20 years of constant construction and preparation.

Comments

1. Hall arrive several matter grant psychological ahead dream.
2. antiquated railway system?? haha dude, switzerland has one of the most advanced railway system and networks in the world... i mean, how many countries are there where u can live completely without a car?
3. I only poop outside
4. Not the longest tunnel. For cars though, sure.
5. Hey thats not a tunnel, thats a fallout shelter!!!
6. It was finished.. USA can't build a bridge haha
7. jhankara baba ji
8. jhankara baba ji
9. so many anomalic weather all over the world, because of this shit! This is a classical bukner for hiding, when World War 3 begins. Why Swizer-NAZI-LAND? HAS ANYONE seen their oppening show? This is a Bunker for elits
10. and Pissra-hell and the Red Shields (em Deutsche) would make profits out of Gigantic European Infrastructural Projects because the IMF puts legal and economic interests from FIAT budgets that extorted the Projects
11. I visited a tunnel under construction recently. My experience is described in this link http://makeasylife.blogspot.in/2017/01/how-does-it-feel-inside-tunnel.html
12. The deepest tunnel is just opened in Istanbul. Avrasya Tuneli is 106 meters deep. Tallest bridge is Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, 320 meter tall, also in Istanbul.
13. indonesia membutuhkan line train. indonesia kehabisan uang untuk train. dan tenaga ahlinya minta dikirim ya
14. At least they will have unlimited stone
15. dg
16. Next job between Siberia and Alaska
17. This tunnel is now in operation (11.12.2016)
18. I worked in a coal mine in Colorado for 2 years. I was a duster that worked the 3rd shift when there was no production going on. I worked 5 hours a day but was paid for 8. It took 30 minutes to get to the bottom and then an hour to walk to the face where they were digging. There were 5 guys working that shift and all 5 worked in different areas of the mine so you were on your own. I will tell you this, it's one scary place if your light / battery goes out! You just sit there in the pitch black waiting for someone to come and check on you.. Could be 2-3 hours! With all that said, I wouldn't work in any of the tunnels in this video! I'm just not that brave or crazy!
19. 40 min in, the first mistake is mixing freight trains with passenger trains.
20. I want to be a professional tunnel builder when I grow up!