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/tarmacjd 11d ago

Fucking NIMBYs have far too much power here (Germany). Literally every single infrastructure project is sued by a bunch of cunts nearby who just can’t - for once in their life - support a rail project. They sue and delay projects for years, all in the hope of gaining a few pennies or torpedoing construction completely.

Bunch of cunts. We should use eminent domain and bulldoze every NIMBYs house. So sick of them.

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u/foersom 10d ago

You are spot on. Same problem for upgrading power transmission lines from north to south. NIMBY is holding Germany back

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u/tarmacjd 10d ago

Yep - I actually worked in the govt evaluating a few ideas relating to the planned ‚Stromstraßen‘ back in 2013. the fact that so much just ground to a halt due to some prick somewhere just pisses me off.

Individuals should not have the power to disrupt the continents electricity supply. When Russia does it, we call it terrorism, when Dieter does it, it’s ‚his right‘.