Recently, the railway tunnel St. Gotthard, which is the longest in the world at 57 kilometers, but now there is a new technical excess that we can be excited about. In Turkey, they have completed the tunnel under the Bosphorus, called Eurasia, which is the first to connect Europe and Asia. The passenger tunnel will open to the public on December 20, 2016, and you can already see what it's like to drive through it.
Eurasia it is the first tunnel connecting Europe and Asia. It will be opened to the public December 20, 2016, and some guests of honor, including the Turkish President, Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, have already had the honor of taking a test drive in this tunnel for passenger vehicles. A five-kilometer tunnel under the Bosphorus Strait shortens the journey between Europe and Asia from almost two hours to nothing 15 minutes! There will be a charge for driving between the two sides of Istanbul 3.5 euros.
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Eurasia Tunnel, which joins the railway crossing under the same strait Marmaray – it has been open since October 2013, and since then it has already undergone renovations 156 million trips –, started construction in 2011 and has two floors and will significantly relieve traffic in the largest Turkish city. In August, Turkey also opened the third bridge across the Bosphorus Strait, which is considered to be one of the largest suspension bridges in the world, and another is opening soon in the Turkish economic capital the third airport.
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