Posted on 06/15/2007 10:09:00 AM PDT by WesternCulture
Switzerland has opened the world's longest rail tunnel on land - the 34-kilometre (21-mile) Loetschberg tunnel under the Alps.
It will cut the journey time between Germany and Italy by at least a third.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
“21 miles for 3.5 Billion dollars. Not bad, I’d say.”
- Building rail tunnels often is very cheap in Europe.
An example from (my home country) Sweden (5.3 miles for $1.13):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallands%C3%A5s_tunnel
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