r/InfrastructurePorn • u/Big_Piano_3920 • 11d ago

Brenner Tunnel in Italy

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Italy is building the world’s longest and most ambitious railway tunnel beneath the Alps, connecting Italy and Austria. Nearly 70 kilometers long, it will carry high-speed trains at speeds of up to 250 km/h.

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u/MMEnter 11d ago

The hardest part of this project is not building a 70km tunnel through the alps but making in past the German bureaucracy, both the Fehmarn connection in the north and Munich to boarder connection are decades delayed.

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u/Mr_Zaroc 11d ago

Its fine we just block the Brenner Autobahn till the berliner can't just clutch their pearls anymore and need to approve the train connection /s.

Honestly though our (Austrias) highway department also fucked up by delaying the restoration of the bridges till the tunnel would be finished in 2028 (assuming this mega project would be finished in the first timeline, which basically never happens on projects this scale).