On 16/03/2012 00:17, wrote:

"The scheme is currently the largest civil engineering project in Europe."
Really? Bigger than the Gotthard Base Tunnel?
But that isn't in Europe...
It is in Switzerland

Jim

In article , (Jim
Chisholm) wrote:

On 16/03/2012 00:17, wrote:

"The scheme is currently the largest civil engineering project in
Europe."
Really? Bigger than the Gotthard Base Tunnel?
But that isn't in Europe...
It is in Switzerland

Which was in Europe last time I looked. It's even in Schengen.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 16/03/2012 23:30, wrote:
In , (Jim
Chisholm) wrote:

On 16/03/2012 00:17, wrote:

"The scheme is currently the largest civil engineering project in
Europe."
Really? Bigger than the Gotthard Base Tunnel?
But that isn't in Europe...
It is in Switzerland

Which was in Europe last time I looked. It's even in Schengen.

Last time I was there they wouldn't even except Euros
{Isn't there some other country a bit like that!}
but I travelled, last year. from Zurich to Milan, in part just to look
at the works and the wonderful views, before it is all in tunnel

Jim

On 2012\03\17 14:21, Jim Chisholm wrote:

but I travelled, last year. from Zurich to Milan, in part just to look
at the works and the wonderful views, before it is all in tunnel

Is the present route being shut when the Gotthard Base Tunnel opens?

In article , (Jim
Chisholm) wrote:

On 16/03/2012 23:30, wrote:
In ,
(Jim Chisholm) wrote:

On 16/03/2012 00:17, wrote:

"The scheme is currently the largest civil engineering project in
Europe."
Really? Bigger than the Gotthard Base Tunnel?
But that isn't in Europe...
It is in Switzerland

Which was in Europe last time I looked. It's even in Schengen.

Last time I was there they wouldn't even except Euros
{Isn't there some other country a bit like that!}
but I travelled, last year. from Zurich to Milan, in part just to
look at the works and the wonderful views, before it is all in tunnel

The existing Gotthard tunnel is rather non-trivial in length.

--
Colin Rosenstiel