Port Miami Tunnel
The Miami port tunnel is an underwater tunnel that triggered debate in Miami, Florida.[1][2] The tunnel was designed to carry up to 26,000 vehicles a day under a waterway known as Government Cut through a pair of tunnels that would each be two lanes wide. The tunnel, as built, was 4,200 feet (1,300 m) long.[3] The top of the tunnel lies a minimum of 60 feet below the seabed.
According to the Miami Herald[1]:
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According to the Miami Herald the financing structure of the plan is notable, for the amount of financial risk taken by the builders, in return for the long term concession on the tunnel.[1]
Construction is projected to take 47 months.[1] Bouygues Travaux Publics was responsible for the French side of the Channel Tunnel. As with the Channel Tunnel large tunnel boring machines would dig through soft limestone under the waterway.
Anti-Castro Cuban exiles object to the choice of the French firm because it built 11 resorts in Cuba.[1]
The tunnel was completed in August 2014.[4][5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Larry Lebowitz (2008-01-15). "Planned Miami port tunnel: Can we dig it?". Miami Herald. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
- ↑ "Port of Miami Tunnel". fdotmiamidade.com. Florida Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ↑ "Video: Animation showing what the tunnel would look like". Miami Herald. 2008-01-15. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
- ↑ "Project History" (PDF). Florida Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
- ↑ Maggie Newland (2014-08-02). "Tunnel To PortMiami Opening Sunday Morning". WFOR-TV. Retrieved 2014-08-03.