Home
Subject list

Tunnel

1997 Apr 21
In Japan drilling on the world’s longest stretch of undersea highway (about 6 miles) was completed across Tokyo Bay to link the cities of Kawasaki and Kisarazu.
Links: Japan, Tunnel     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
2006
The London Borough of Hackney evicted William Lyttle (75), the Mole Man of Mortimer Road, to allow work to stabilize the Victorian house, where he spent 40 years digging a labyrinth of tunnels.
Links: Britain, Tunnel     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
2007 Oct 12
In southern California 28 commercial vehicles and one passenger vehicle were involved in the crash in the southbound truck tunnel of Interstate 5 that killed three people and injured at least 10.
Links: USA, California, Tunnel     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
2008 Jan 27
In northwest Pakistan security forces retook the Kohat Tunnel, which was captured a day earlier, and killed at least 24 militants.
Links: Pakistan, Tunnel     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
2008 Nov 15
In eastern China a subway tunnel under construction collapsed in Hangzhou, trapping workers and creating a huge crater into which more than 10 vehicles plunged. At least 7 people died and 14 were missing.
Links: China, Tunnel     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
We offer additional services to help you as well including tax attorney help with tax relief issues, auto accident attorney services, and sustainable development information to research going green!
2009 Jun 8
New Jersey officials broke ground for a new tunnel under the Hudson River linking to NYC. The $8.7 billion project was expected to be completed in 2017.
Links: USA, New Jersey, Tunnel     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
2010 Dec 13
US immigration agents discovered a 13-foot drug tunnel stretching from the Mexican border to a metered parking space in Arizona, where vehicles with holes cut in the bottom would park and take marijuana from people inside the underground space.
Links: USA, Mexico, Arizona, Drugs, Tunnel     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
2010 Dec 15
In China workers blasted through the last part of a tunnel that connects the Tibetan county of Metok to China's major thoroughfare.
Links: China, Tibet, Tunnel     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
2012 Mar 9
In Canada PM Stephen Harper said a new pedestrian link, to be operational by 2014, would help give Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport the service it deserves. The new tunnel will eliminate the need for a short ferry ride to the downtown island airport.
Links: Canada, Tunnel     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 



Go to top