World's Longest Tunnel Excavation Ended

Long tunnel, the train will be inaugurated in 2016. This tunnel will cross the Alps and consists of two parallel tunnels, each 57 km in length. drilling last remaining rock tunnel "GATT hard" in the Secretary of Transportation SC and it was also the happiness of employees and workers, directly through the TV was playing SC for all European countries. Swiss Government for the completion of this tunnel over 3/10 billion dollars has been predicted that The train can travel 300 to launch it. Reuters photo taken steps to build this tunnel that you see

 

A Visual Tour of the World's Longest Sea Bridge

It only makes sense that the country that brought you the Great Wall of China is now home to the world's longest sea bridge. The 26-mile Jiaozhou Bay bridge, which was built over the course of four years for $1.5 billion, links China's eastern port city of Qingdao to an offshore island, Huangdao, according to theAP (the previous record-holder was the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana). It is supported by more than 5,000 pillars, is expected to carry more than 30,000 cars per day, and opened for traffic on Thursday. China, which is already home to seven of the world's ten lengthiest bridges, according to The Telegraph, plans to finish an even longer sea bridge linking southern Guangdong province with Hong Kong and Macau by 2016. But enough words! A story like this needs visuals.

Here's a photo released by China's Xinhua news agency the day before the Jiaozhou Bay bridge opened:

Reuters gives us another view:

The photos are helpful, of course, but what would it be like to actually drive on this thing? The Telegraphtakes us on a breathtaking aerial tour:

24.5Km – The world’s longest road tunnel in Norway

A marvelous civil engineering project depicting the world’s largest road tunnel