China's longest under-lake tunnel opens
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Updated: 2021-12-30 21:53
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Taihu Tunnel, built under the Taihu Lake in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, opened to traffic in the afternoon of Dec 30.
Known as the longest passageway under a lake ever built in China, the 10.79-kilometer tunnel is a two-way, six-lane highway with a designed speed for motor vehicles of up to 100 km per hour. The mega road infrastructure project cost around 5 billion yuan ($784.72 million) and took four years to build.
The tunnel will cut travel time between Mashan and Nanquan — lakeside subdistricts of the city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province — by half compared with the current commute, and make it more convenient to travel from the urban area of Wuxi to Yixing, a county-level city administered by Wuxi.
