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eCa 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Koralm Railway

The 57 km Gotthard Base Tunnel has been in operation since 2016. There's also a 3km long tunnel between France and Italy that opened in 1882. Nowadays there's probably hundreds of 1km+ tunnels in the Alps.

ChrisMarshallNY 5 months ago [–]

Well, from the other responses, it seems the Italian Alps are pretty stable.

tacone 5 months ago | [–]

Yes but we're drilling holes through them to fix that.

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