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California is building a $400M shield for Yosemite's most dangerous highway

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/yosemite-national-park-highway-140-22463847.php
18•danso•2d ago

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danso•2d ago
https://archive.is/PGZKw
JumpCrisscross•14m ago
“He described the new $400 million infrastructure as a colossal ‘tunnel with windows’”

What would an actual tunnel cost in Europe or China?

defrost•4m ago
Fun to "normalise" - the UK, for example, has both the recent London underground extensions and the London Sewer projects that have figures on tap for large tunnels + extras.

This specific "tunnel with windows" is $400 m USD quoted in toto for a 675-foot avalanche resistant rock shed.

In Yosemite they're cutting through the edges of hard rock - as opposed to the much softer soils under London and the Thames, and they're making an impact shock resistant structure exposed to daily heating and cooling as opposed to relatively zero shock resistant tunnels with far less of a temperature cycle.

For a Yosemite tunnel the length would be greater and the cutting challenges greater (rock V soil).

Apples, Oranges.

You might be better served looking to European rock shed construction of a similar scale - the civil engineering aspects would be similar.

voidfunc•2m ago
400m now... after cost overruns 2billion.

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