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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by nstom on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:09AM (#16566906)
With just 16km, this is not by any stretch going to be the world's second-longest tunnel, just the world's second-longest road tunnel. The longest tunnels are rail tunnels, which measure up to 57km (Gotthard base tunnel), and if you count subway tunnels the longest is Guangzhou metro line 3 with 60km. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_tunnels_by_type#U...)
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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by ttkari on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:30AM (#16566964)
The page you linked also lists tunnels built for water distribution, the longest of which is the Delaware Aqueduct at 137 km.
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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by vermontdevil on Monday March 12, 2018 @09:11AM (#16567889)
And they are building a bypass of 2.5 miles but will take total of 8 years. All so they can fix major leaks in the current aqueduct. Fascinating project.
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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by maljx on Monday March 12, 2018 @09:25AM (#16567959)
There's one tunnel in each direction, the video mentions the total tunnel distance as 50km.
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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by cup-of-tea on Monday March 12, 2018 @09:58AM (#16568148)
The Channel Tunnel has three tunnels, which total ~150km then.
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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by isostatic on Monday March 12, 2018 @01:38PM (#16569812)
With the middle one being a 50km road tunnel, albeit not publicly accessible.
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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by sctb on Monday March 12, 2018 @12:25PM (#16569219)
We've updated the headline here to clarify. Thanks!
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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by germainelol on Monday March 12, 2018 @10:07PM (#16573409)
i remember every time i went on line 3 for several stops, i thought to myself "damn, this is a long tunnel"
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