New route into & out of Gibraltar is a 350 metre long underpass
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2024
- The new route into and out of Gibraltar is a 350 metre long underpass.
It is made up of two separate carriageways - one for eastbound and one for westbound traffic. Each of these has two lanes.
In the event of an incident, or prolonged tailbacks, one of the lanes in the eastbound carriageway will become the new third lane to accommodate any traffic build-up.
Pedestrians and cyclists have a route of their own. They will travel in a separate underpass away from all vehicular traffic.
Kevin Ruiz took a closer look. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Great to see it complete
imagine if all countries took that long to build a short tunnel,amazing
How short 350 meters actually is didn't register in my mind until I've seen the footage lol. You can almost see the exit right after entering the tunnel!
Super that pedestrians and cyclists are catered for. Well done, GIB.
Well done bro said it took like 13 years
Is there is control check on passports for in and out pedestrians?
Interesting accent 🙂
Ok, even If this might benefit airport operations, seeing one of the things that made this airport kinda fascinating getting less used just bugs me.
Typical Europeans, what takes 2 -3 years in some countries takes them 10 years.
Europeans also built the Euro Tunnel in 6 years and the colosseum in 20 so...
Well it was more or less funded by the territory of Gibraltar, so that amounts to being funded and constructed by a population and tax base the size of a medium sized town. So not too slow in all honesty.
Yeah, sometimes it's really slow. That's true. But the picture sometimes is a little bit skewed because other countries don't care about anything. If a valuable archaeological site is in the way - just bulldoze over it. Rare animals? Now extinct. Safety measures? Escape routes? Lighting? No, just a dark tunnel and if a truck burns in there good luck. If you build like that you can save a few years, of course. Do we want that? No. But that certainly doesn't mean we can't improve the speed of infrastructure projects. I'm all for it.