{"id":6339,"date":"2010-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/2010\/10\/18\/longest-rail-tunnel-but-much-work-remains-6\/"},"modified":"2010-10-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T04:00:00","slug":"longest-rail-tunnel-but-much-work-remains-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/longest-rail-tunnel-but-much-work-remains-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Longest rail tunnel; but much work remains","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s billed as the world\u2019s longest tunnel \u2013 35.4 miles long — and it\u2019s been 60 years in the planning and digging. It\u2019s in Switzerland.<\/p>\n
The Gotthard Base Tunnel is the backbone of a proposed high-speed freight and passenger rail network through Europe, according to various news reports, cutting under the Alps and intended to create a high-speed rail link from Rotterdam in The Netherlands to Genoa in Italy.<\/p>\n
Train speeds through the tunnel are projected to reach 155 mph.<\/p>\n
However, still to be completed, according to news reports, are two more rail tunnels \u2013 one in France and the other in Italy — meaning the first high-speed trains from Rotterdam to Genoa along the route might not operate for another 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s billed as the world\u2019s longest tunnel \u2013 35.4 miles long — and it\u2019s been 60 years in the planning and digging. It\u2019s in Switzerland. The Gotthard Base Tunnel is the backbone of a proposed high-speed freight and passenger rail network through Europe, according to various news reports, cutting under the Alps and intended to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,45,9],"tags":[],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n