Very often the geological objects such as mountains, rivers and seas block the way for direct strip convenient way. In this case, the need to build bridges, tunnels and other means of communication. And there is nothing difficult, if the roads will be small. But this can be a problem when the projected distance exceeds a few tens of kilometers, and even will lie under water. However, that’s what I plan to do the Chinese authorities, building the tunnel, the underwater part of which would be 135 kilometers.
The new road will connect Taiwan and mainland China. Plans to build such an ambitious project had been under discussion for several years, but only now, according to the architects, the optimal solution is found. Compared with the plans of China, one of the largest such construction projects of the last century, namely, the construction of the Eurotunnel under the English channel linking Europe with the UK, it seems a real trifle. The length of the underwater part of the channel tunnel is 3.5 times smaller: “only” 37 kilometers with a total length of the tunnel 51 km.
Returning to the Chinese object: its diameter would equal 10 meters and the maximum speed limit on certain sections will be about 250 kilometers per hour. While in the tunnel will be laid 2 of the railway, on which trains will run in both directions. Throughout the tunnel there will be organized “Islands” for air intake and ventilation system, electricity, cellular and Wi-Fi. On both sides to house the free trade zone. The opening of the tunnel is planned for 2030.
China will build the world’s largest underwater tunnel
Vladimir Kuznetsov