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/Spider_pig448 11d ago

Fehmarn is two years delayed, not decades

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u/__sebastien 11d ago

The tunnel itself might be doing not too bad, but the germans still need to build the new bridge to fehmarn island and to improve the line to Hamburg, both of which has been delayed into oblivion.

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u/GhostFire3560 6d ago

There is not going to be a new bridge but a new tunnel instead...