| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/10/29, 11:14 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Turkey is set to open a $4bn railway tunnel underneath the Bosphorus Strait linking the two continents of Asia and Europe.
The Turkish-Japanese project was a dreamchild of Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I, who sketched an underwater tunnel more than 150 years back.
The tunnel, connecting the Asian and European shores of Istanbul, is 13.6kms (8.5 miles) long, including a 1.4km immersed tube channel.The inauguration of the tunnel coincides with the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic.
The quake-proof tunnel has been built to address Turkey's increasing traffic congestion and has been Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's pet project for several years.
The construction of the tunnel started in 2004 and was scheduled to be completed in 2009, but was frequently delayed by archaeological excavations.
When it is fully operational, nearly 75,000 people can travel every hour in the tunnel which has a carrying capacity of 1.5 million people a day. During peak hours, trains will run every two minutes.
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