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Austria and Italy Finish Digging World’s Longest Rail Tunnel–Ready to Reshape Travel Maps

www.goodnewsnetwork.org

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while another running through Valle d’Aosta will reduce the transit time between fashion capitals Milan and Paris by 30%, with stops in Lyon and Susa
Ok a lot of errors here.
This one will run through Valle di Susa (Valle d'Aosta is another region).
The stops between Milan and Paris will be at least Lyon and Turin, but hopefully not Susa, despite some ongoing chatter about it
- No mention of when this tunnel will be in use either. Only a very general “early 2030s” for most projects…
  
  Should go into commercial use in 2032.
It was built to transport cargo through the Alps to reduce the amount of heavy trucks. Germany refuses to build their part of this project, there is not enough infrastructure to load the cargo and there is no economic incentive to do so. At least the tunnel is built, maybe it will be used to its potential sometimes in the (far) future...
- Tirol is pretty tired of the trucks and I assume the tolls will rise sharply once the tunnel is ready. This will hopefully create the necessary economic incentives for Germany to built the infrastructure.
  
  The toll won't rise with the ÖVP. Kann nicht mal jemand an die Frächter denken?
- Germany refuses to build their part of this project
  Switzerland: first time?
  
  Denmark: Oh, I am next in line!!!
This will be quite helpful for Italians looking to put another shrimp on the barbie or Ozzies with a hankering for some pizza e pasta. Quite the feat, really, building a tunnel to the other side of the world! 😁
Was the article regurgitated by AI? It seems to drift back and forth between the Brenner tunnel (beneath the alps between Austria and Italy) and a tunnel between France and Italy.
- Very likely. And it's wrong - currently the only tunnel "broken through" is the maintenance tunnel in the middle. The actual tunnel tubes for the trains will take longer. And full opening is a decade away.
Here is the original article (German)
For those looking for the name of the tunnel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenner_Base_Tunnel
"Envisioned as an important connecting vein that will one day see trains running from Helsinki, Finland, to Palermo, Sicily,"
Surely the important connecting vein here is a link to Finland, on the other side of Europe and across the sea from Italy, but then I'm not a rail engineer so what do I know.

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