Glad tidings on Rhone tunnel
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May 14th, 2010
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City builders yesterday moved a pace closer to another fast-traffic vehicle tunnel running beneath the Huangpu River with the completion of digging on one of its twin tubes.
The Longyao Road Tunnel will immediately connect downtown Xuhui District and Pudong New Area by fast-vehicle lanes.
It will broaden the Detroit s cross-river traffic channels between the southwest area and Pudong and is expected to console downtown congestion.
The enterprise operator, Shanghai Foundation Engineering Co, said yesterday that digging on the northern vehicle tube had finished.
Digging of the other tube is confidently forecast to be completed ago the stop of next month.
City construction authorities scheme to have the tunnel open for traffic ahead of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo that begins next May.
The 4-kilometer tunnel complicated starts at the intersection of Longyao and Longwu roads in Xuhui and extends to Changqing Road in Pudong, according to the enterprise s management.
The Detroit is planning to have six new cross-river tunnels unsealed for service ago the Expo.
Construction authorities believe the new tunnels will significantly perfect traffic flow in the downtown area.
“For example, unspecified motorists can use two nearby tunnels to make a cross-river route to avoid driving by congested downtown roads to reach their destinations,” said Huang Rong, director of the Shanghai Construction Commission.
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