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Swiss celebrate digging world's longest tunnel

Oct. 16, 2010 04:22 am JST 9 Comments

SEDRUN, Switzerland

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proxy
Oct. 16, 2010 10:04 am JST

Just for the record; IT IS NOT THE WORLD'S LONGEST TUNNEL!!!!!!!!!

Several water tunnels, which are as large (Die Hard: dump trucks) and more impressive feats of engineering are much, longer.

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Elbuda Mexicano
Oct. 16, 2010 10:13 am JST

I am sure it must be really,really long, even if it not the world's longest as proxy here mentions. Congratulations Swiss folk!

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888naff
Oct. 16, 2010 02:01 pm JST

Was it built with japanese tech like the channel tunnel? Its the longest rail tunnel not the longest tunnel.

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gogogo
Oct. 16, 2010 02:14 pm JST

The world longest tunnel is the Delaware Aqueduct in New York at 137 kilometers, this is just wrong information.

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Zenny11
Oct. 16, 2010 02:23 pm JST

888naff.

No the longest rail tunnel is different from a road tunnel due to requirements(ventilation, etc).

Also drilling an underground tunnel is different from drilling a tunnel through a mountain range, etc.

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sam1633
Oct. 17, 2010 03:28 am JST

Congratulations to the Swiss, job well done!!!!!

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TumbleDry
Oct. 17, 2010 02:29 pm JST

proxy & gogogo: did you read the article? This is not for water but trains.

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gogogo
Oct. 17, 2010 10:24 pm JST

TumbleDry: Yeah you could drive a truck in the New York tunnel it is that big, no difference

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TumbleDry
Oct. 18, 2010 02:14 am JST

gogogo: cool! I'm sure you could also make it the longest wine cellar in the world. Still, not for trains.

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Swiss celebrate digging world's longest tunnel