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The Fort Point Channel Tunnel is a tunnel underneath the South Boston Streets and Fort Point Channel.It was built using a casting basin. It was built 1991–1994 in the Big Dig.
Traffic crawls over a closed Fort Point Channel Tunnel entrance in Boston during rush hour on July 11, 2006, a day after the collapse.. The Big Dig ceiling collapse occurred on July 10, 2006, when a concrete ceiling panel and debris weighing 26 short tons (52,000 lb; 24,000 kg) and measuring 20 by 40 feet (6.1 by 12.2 m) fell in Boston's Fort Point Channel Tunnel (which connects to the Ted ...
Fort Point as it relates to how Boston was filled in. Fort Point channel (center) in 1880, showing old railroad and street crossings. The following bridges and tunnels cross or used to cross the channel, from north to south, with building/opening dates: Northern Avenue Bridge (built 1908, closed to vehicles in 1997, closed to pedestrians in 2014)
The most expensive was the building of the Phase II Silver Line tunnel under Fort Point Channel, done in coordination with Big Dig construction. Silver Line buses now use this tunnel and the Ted Williams Tunnel to link South Station and Logan Airport.
MBTA Silver Line, bus tunnel, between South Station and Silver Line Way under Fort Point Channel; Hoosac Tunnel, rail tunnel, 1875, 4.75 miles (7.64 km) long, Pan Am Railways (formerly Boston and Maine Railroad), through the Berkshire Mountains between North Adams and Florida, Massachusetts
High Speed 1, the line from London to the Channel Tunnel in Kent has even more capacity – it could triple the number of trains and still have room for more. But it all depends on new entrants ...
By way of comparison, the 50-kilometer (31-mile) Channel Tunnel linking England and France, completed in 1993, cost the equivalent of £12 billion ($13.6 billion) in today’s money.
On July 10, 2006, at approximately 11 p.m. four three-ton sections of a concrete drop ceiling inside the I-90 Fort Point Channel tunnel leading to the Ted Williams Tunnel collapsed. A section of ceiling fell on top of a car traveling through the connector tunnel, killing 38-year-old passenger Milena Del Valle and slightly injuring her husband ...