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The oldest underwater rail tunnel in the world, crossing the Mersey in Liverpool: 1.21 km: 1881–1886 Severn Tunnel: Wales – England: One of the oldest underwater rail tunnels in the world: 7.01 km: 1873–1886 Blackwall Tunnel (western) London, England: The oldest underwater vehicular tunnel in the world, crossing the Thames in London: 1.35 ...
The Holland Tunnel was the first underwater tunnel designed for automobiles. Atlantic Avenue tunnels on Long Island Rail Road: Abandoned Cobble Hill Tunnel under Atlantic Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn; Current Atlantic Branch tunnels under Atlantic Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn and Queens
Longest underwater road tunnel in the world Water supply #6 Tunnel, Yellow River Diversion to Shanxi South Line Shanxi, China 14,400 m (8.948 mi) 2002 See South–North Water Transfer Project: Water supply Ala Mountain Pass Water Supply Project Xinjiang, China 14,346 m (8.914 mi) 2010 Road Twin Tube Ovit Tunnel [81]
Construction of the Eysturoy Tunnel took about four years, opening in December 2020. These subsea tunnels are created by using the drill and blast method: drilling holes in the basalt — a strong ...
The tunnel is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and carries Interstate 78. The New Jersey side of the tunnel is the eastern terminus of New Jersey Route 139. The Holland Tunnel is one of three vehicular crossings between Manhattan and New Jersey; the two others are the Lincoln Tunnel and George Washington Bridge.
A tunnel under a fjord, the Hvalfjörður Tunnel, is among the longest underwater road tunnels in the world, and goes as deep as 165 m (541 ft) below sea level. [1] Tunneling is a relatively recent trend in Icelandic road infrastructure. It started off slowly and was at first only used in extreme circumstances, such as under Arnardalshamar in 1948.
Artemisio Tunnel (road), double tunnel, under Mount Artemision, 1.40 km 76 tunnels of the A2 motorway (Egnatia Odos), most notably in parts of Epirus and Western Macedonia , combined length of 99 km, the longest of which are Driskos Tunnel 4.6 km, Metsovo Tunnel 3.5 km, Dodoni Tunnel 3.6 km, Kastania Tunnel 2.2 km, Anilio Tunnel 2.1 km
The Fort Lauderdale tunnel is one of two underwater tunnels in South Florida — the PortMiami tunnel from the MacArthur Causeway to Dodge Island is the other. The namesake of the Fort Lauderdale ...