How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tunnel

Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by Sharlin on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:25AM (#16566944)

Sure it was. It preserves the current environment which is preferable from both aesthetic and ecosystems point of view.

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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by ajeet_dhaliwal on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:45AM (#16567014)

On the surface, what about the long term effects of boring giant holes and tunnels through underground?

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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by jimstr on Monday March 12, 2018 @06:02AM (#16567078)

There was a previous Swedish tunnel project that had a number of incidents, among others groundwater pollution caused by a new sealing compound that contained acrylamid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallands%C3%A5s_Tunnel

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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by jopsen on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:57AM (#16567056)

Probably most of it is rock, and the tunnel is probably sounded by concrete.

Regardless, I have no doubt the Swedes did an analysis and weighted the pros and cons.

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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by tontonius on Monday March 12, 2018 @06:00AM (#16567068)

What about the aesthetics and ecosystem of the bedrock? Are we suddenly caring more about living things than inanimate objects?

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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by Sharlin on Monday March 12, 2018 @06:07AM (#16567099)

Yes, in general we do.

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Re:How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tu... by pjc50 on Monday March 12, 2018 @09:32AM (#16568000)

The joke is that rock that deep underground has no ecosystem.

It may however be involved in the water table, which is always critical.

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