Re:Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock
by goatforce5 on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:18PM
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Slight tangent:
The world's first tunnel under a river was completed by Brunel in 1843 and is still in use today by Transport for London for as part of the London Overground network (ignore the confusing naming - the Overground is like the Underground, but the service operates at longer intervals).
The Wikipedia page has a lot of detail about how it was constructed:
The world's first tunnel under a river was completed by Brunel in 1843 and is still in use today by Transport for London for as part of the London Overground network (ignore the confusing naming - the Overground is like the Underground, but the service operates at longer intervals).
The Wikipedia page has a lot of detail about how it was constructed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel