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Rhondda Tunnel Society gets £90,000 grant for inspection
BBC NEWS   21 September 2017   United Kingdom   South East Wales  
Rhondda Tunnel
<p>A group set up to reopen a disused Rhondda railway tunnel to cyclists and walkers is to receive a &pound;90,000 grant.</p> <p>The money, from Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund, will be used for a detailed examination of the tunnel between Blaencwm ...
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Dubai’s mega drainage tunnel project gets green light
Gulf News   18 September 2017   United Arab Emirates   Dubai  
Dubai’sdrainage tunnel project
<p>First stage gets approval for Dh1.3b, while the second phase of the project is under consideration for approval, which will raise the total cost of the project to Dh2.5b.</p> <p>Dubai: Dubai is set to begin the construction of its mega drainage system dubbed ...
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What is the Stonehenge Tunnel plan, when will it be built, where does the A303 go and has the route been altered?
THE SUN   12 September 2017   UK   Amesbury  
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<p>PLANS to lay down a two-mile long tunnel under the Stonehenge as part of a &pound;2billion scheme has finally been given the green light after years of delays.</p> <p>The government confirmed the busy A303 road, which passes the Stonehenge in Wiltshire, ...
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Singapore awards civils work for underground line
The construction index   11 September 2017   Singapore   Asia  
Circle Line 6 (source: The construction index)
<p>Singapore&rsquo;s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded civils contracts with a combined value of S$1.75bn (&pound;663m) for construction of the Circle Line 6 (CCL6).</p> <p>Largest of the three contracts is the S$1.21bn extension of Kim Chuan Depot, ...
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Underground Metro in Mumbai gets its first tunnel digger
Hindustan Times   07 September 2017   India   Mumbai  
The Tunnel Boring Machine at Mumbai Port.(HT)
<p>The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation has received the first Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) that would be used to drill twin tunnels for the 33.5km Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro-3 line. Sixteen more highly-mechanised TBMs will arrive in the city in the period of next ...
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Elon Musk's Boring Co. Has A Greenlight From Hometown To Build Test Tunnel
FORBES   25 August 2017   USA   California, Hawthorne  
A prototype Boring Company drilling machine rests outside of SpaceX headquarters in suburban Los Angeles.
<p>Elon Musk’s audacious plan for a new business to build tunnels for high-speed subterranean transportation took a step forward by winning approval from local officials to proceed with a test tunnel running far below two city streets and a small airport.</p><p>Hawthorne, ...
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Elon Musk's Boring Company Just Hit the Boring Part
WIRED   11 August 2017   USA  
The Boring Company
<p>It sounds like the plot of a James Bond movie: A charismatic billionaire wants to build a network of high tech tunnels beneath America's cities and slay an enemy in the process. But this isn't a summer blockbuster. It's Elon Musk's latest Big Idea. In addition ...
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China is building deepest high-speed railway station
China.org.cn   31 July 2017   China   Beijing  
Workers are digging a tunnel of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway line's branch linking Chongli county, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, on June 30, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua]
<p>Chinese workers are building the world's deepest and Asia's largest underground high-speed railway station beneath the Great Wall at the Badaling section in Beijing. The station under construction will be 3-story high and have a 36,000 square meters floor ...
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Adhi Karya starts LRT City construction
TheJakartaPost   30 July 2017   Indonesia   Jakarta  
Planned routes of the light rail transit (LRT) system being built by state-owned contractor PT Adhi Karya and the central government. (Courtesty of PT Adhi Karya/File/File)
<p>State-owned builder PT Adhi Karya has officially started the construction of the first tower of its apartment and commercial complex Royal Sentul Park in Sentul, West Java, following a groundbreaking ceremony on Saturday.<br><br>The Royal Sentul Park is ...
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‘Rest of the world’ looking at Hawthorne as Elon Musk prepares to dig test tunnel
DAILY BREEZE   27 July 2017   USA   California, Hawthorne  
Hawthorne Mayor Alex Vargas tours the inside of The Boring Co. tunnel entrance. (Photo courtesy Alex Vargas)
<p>The first electric-vehicle freeway tunnel designed and built by Elon Musk’s Boring Co. could begin construction as soon as October across from SpaceX in Hawthorne.<br><br>The City Council late Tuesday unanimously approved an agreement among The Boring Co., ...
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