Il più grande progetto di tunnel su strada del Regno Unito ha assegnato £ 590 milioni
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mrm84wg4ko
di insomnimax_99
Il più grande progetto di tunnel su strada del Regno Unito ha assegnato £ 590 milioni
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mrm84wg4ko
di insomnimax_99
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>Constructing the Lower Thames Crossing, linking Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent, will cost an estimated £10bn.
>Plans for the 14.5-mile (23km) route were approved in March after a 16-year process that has already cost £1.2bn.
For contrast, Norway built the world’s longest road tunnel for the equivalent of £240 million in today’s money.
How does the government have money for this but had to cancel the A1 dualing project (estimated 500m cost) because it couldn’t afford it? Clearly looking after the southeast again.
https://www.reddit.com/r/uknews/s/bFBPm6GRW0
Which one is it?
It’s worth bearing in mind that to date precisely zero millimetres have been built and it’s cost 1.2 billion to achieve that.
It is a much needed route though, This will mean traffic from the channel crossings can head north without putting added pressure on Dartford, which is already at breaking point at the best of times.
Just need a decent southcoast road network and we might begin to take the preasure off the M20 and M25
Is anyone able to tell me why this one was deemed more important than the Stonehenge tunnel?
16 years and over a billion spent before anything is built is unacceptable. Obviously there is a significant design stage that costs money but that is a scam. And naturally whereas the BBC would highlight this fact for a country in Africa or Asia it completely glosses over this fact at home in Britain. Enforcing the mentality that Britain is not corrupt and it’s only Johnny Foreigner that does that kind of malarkey. Typical Brit attitude.
I guess $590m is cheap .. but isn’t there normally a 10x oopsie that happens after kick off?
I would love the tech that is periodically talked about for Norway Fjords – [pre-fabbed sections floated to site an lowered below the surface, joined, have the water pumped out after anchoring to the bottom](https://www.google.com/search?q=norway+Submerged+floating+tube+bridges). In Norways case that’s quite a bit higher than the bottom of the bottom of the Fjord. In the case if the lower Thames, it’s be recessed into a dredged channel to present no higher that the former bed of the river at that point – same principle though – sections built to spec in many places – https://www.trusteddocks.com/catalog/country/226-united-kingdom then bought to site. This approach moves the engineering a little from construction toward production lines (of sorts).