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In the Netherlands there's one point where two highways cross with traffic lights. To solve this, they are "pushing a tunnel for the A59 underneath the A27", within 100 hours.

I mean, what?

Apparently they dig a gap in one highway, drive the concrete tunnel in that gap, and restore the highway over that new tunnel...

All these steps happen in one weekend, this weekend. This is a time lapse of the tunnel being driven into that gap, which has just finished. It's quite amazing.

player.vimeo.com/video/1110343…

in reply to Gidi Kroon

I'm not fully understanding the overall plan and the website is unclear about it, but here's more info and a live blog:

a27houtenhooipolder.nl/project…


Dit weekend kom je op de #A27 in beide richtingen afsluitingen tegen bij knp. Hooipolder. We voeren namelijk werkzaamheden uit, waarbij we in 100 uur een onderdoorgang in de A27 schuiven. Benieuwd hoe dat eruitziet? Volg het via een livestream en liveblog: a27houtenhooipolder.nl/project…