Deep Bore Tunnels

KnightinArmor02 · 04-28-2011, 05:06 PM

Think about what the quality of life would feel like if there was a supperhighway or railway going UNDER your house. think of the dangers and the economic impact of having something like that around your city. What are your thoughts?

"Alan Dyke, managing director for the high-speed rail route between London and the English Channel, said a tunnel under London was chosen because disruption and environmental mitigation requirements of a surface route through the city would been excessive. [...] The Paris A86 beltway automobile tunnel holds a similar lesson. Jeff Hall is vice president of Cofiroute, a subsidiary of Vinci, one of the largest construction firms in the world and builder of A86. Hall said Paris went through alternatives -- surface roads, a cut-and-cover tunnel -- and rejected them due to a quality of life issue: Protection of the Parisian greenbelt. 'A deep-bore tunnel was the only way to do this while adding capacity.'"

"The case for the deep bore tunnel." Seattle Scape Blog: "What’s the price of several years of massive disruption with the aerial or shallow-cut alternatives? How many stores would fail, offices would move away, residents wouldn’t move in, and tourists wouldn’t come? (not to mention the effect of being next to another eyesore for another lifetime)"

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KnightinArmor02 Novice Writer Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: The Wonderful City of Oz Posts: 13 Points: 13.39 Times Thanked: 2	Think about what the quality of life would feel like if there was a supperhighway or railway going UNDER your house. think of the dangers and the economic impact of having something like that around your city. What are your thoughts? "Alan Dyke, managing director for the high-speed rail route between London and the English Channel, said a tunnel under London was chosen because disruption and environmental mitigation requirements of a surface route through the city would been excessive. [...] The Paris A86 beltway automobile tunnel holds a similar lesson. Jeff Hall is vice president of Cofiroute, a subsidiary of Vinci, one of the largest construction firms in the world and builder of A86. Hall said Paris went through alternatives -- surface roads, a cut-and-cover tunnel -- and rejected them due to a quality of life issue: Protection of the Parisian greenbelt. 'A deep-bore tunnel was the only way to do this while adding capacity.'" "The case for the deep bore tunnel." Seattle Scape Blog: "What’s the price of several years of massive disruption with the aerial or shallow-cut alternatives? How many stores would fail, offices would move away, residents wouldn’t move in, and tourists wouldn’t come? (not to mention the effect of being next to another eyesore for another lifetime)"