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Originally Posted by djmk
i use to drive that everyday and i hated it
from the bridge to the highway has to be around 5km. that's a crazy long tunnel. and all of it would be under homes.
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not really.
Here is a one of many highway tunnels under construction in Prague, 5.5km for this one. There are countless tunnels, built, planned, or approved, infact most of the inner city ring road is tunneled. So yes its possilbe, you just have to go and do it. I should add though that there's a impressive public transit system to go with this (i might be a homer) but imo its the best pulic transit system in the world for a city in 1.2mill range(1.9 for the metro).
yellow is tunnels, interchanges are mostly also bellow ground...the southern end leads in to another tunnel and then another(so thats like a 15 or so km stretch with 95% of it bellow ground).
some motivational links...good construction and pictures, plans and stuff, I just wish Vancouver could try something similiar...and dont even look at the public transit network.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=307793
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=484668