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Cross-Harbour Tunnel was completely suspended during protest in November 2019. The Hong Kong government used the operator model "Build Operate Transfer", or "BOT", for the implementation of the tunnel project; Financing and construction was the responsibility of a private enterprise, which was granted a concession to operate and collect tolls for 30 years.
The 14 tunnel segments, each 100 metres long, were cast in a basin in Chai Wan. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 3 ] The tunnel was designed by Per Hall Consultants under the supervision of Freeman Fox and Partners. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A specially designed barge, constructed for Kumagai Gumi by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , arrived in Hong Kong in February 1977 to help ...
[6] [7] The tunnel is 13.6 kilometres (8.5 mi) long overall, of which 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) were constructed using the immersed tube technique. [5] Currently the longest immersed tube tunnel is the 6.7-kilometre-long (4.2 mi) tunnel portion of the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, completed in 2018.
The Tuen Mun - Chek Lap Kok TBM otherwise known as Qin Liangyu or more formally, the Mixshield S-880 was the world's largest tunnel boring machine launched in June 2015 by Herrenknecht in Germany. [1] [2] The TBM was used to drill a 5 km tunnel connecting Tuen Mun to the Hong Kong International Airport, part of the Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok Link ...
The Central–Wan Chai Bypass is a 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) trunk road running between Sheung Wan and Fortress Hill on Hong Kong Island.The original design consists of a 2.3 km dual three-lane tunnel running under new reclamation areas provided by the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation project, [1] and also connections to Connaught Road West flyover and Island Eastern Corridor.
Lung Shan Tunnel: 2019 4.8 N/A Hong Kong Government / Transport Infrastructure Management Limited Toll-free 16,728 N/A Cheung Shan Tunnel: 2019 0.9 N/A Hong Kong Government / Transport Infrastructure Management Limited Toll-free 4688 N/A Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok Link: 2020 5.5 N/A Hong Kong Government / Transport Infrastructure Management Limited
The Cross-Harbour Tunnel opened in 1972. due to the ever increasing population in Hong Kong and improving prosperity made the construction of further tunnels a necessity. The harbour crossing ferry services continued on until 1998 when Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry ceased to operate these ferry services.
The 10.8 km long tunnel is part of a 140-kilometer (87 mi)-long high-speed line from Guangzhou to Shenzhen and Hong Kong. It is designed for speeds of up to 350 km/h (usually 250 km/h in operation) - the fastest underwater tunnel in the world. [2] as well as being China's longest underwater tunnel. [3]