Re:China’s plan to build the longest underwater tunnel on th...
by useruseruser on Saturday July 13, 2013 @01:52AM
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Well, I have no idea about what the true demand is for this project, but I random article I pulled up on this project claims that today the estimated traffic between the two cities is at least between 30-40k cars/day (http://house.qingdaonews.com/content/2013-07/12/content_9853...). Apparently, the current infrastructure is ill-equipped to handle this, so that some trucks will actually still choose to go the land route. Also, there is something called a train ferry transporting trains across the sea? I had no idea.
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Re:China’s plan to build the longest underwater tunnel on th...
by snogglethorpe on Saturday July 13, 2013 @09:14PM
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> Also, there is something called a train ferry transporting trains across the sea? I had no idea.
There are certainly such things, sometimes amazingly seamless, though I've only seen them for passenger trains. Freight trains do tend to present different tradeoffs...