Tunnel to open in November?
Daragh | September 6, 2006It is being reported today that the long overdue Dublin Port Tunnel is being scheduled to open in mid-November, with a date to be confirmed within the next two weeks. Plans are apparently underway to hold a charity fundraising 10km swim run through the tunnel on the weekend prior to its opening. More details on the tunnel as and when we get them.
Port-Tunnel – Charity 10K Run
Do anybody have any information on this?
If you go to http://www.activeeurope.com it will have all the information.
Cheers
ck also on http://www.amnesty.ie/content/view/full/6395/
and indeed you can enroll now on http://www.activeeurope.com
good luck
[...] Darragh wrote back in September that the Dublin Port Tunnel was to open in mid-November. It now appears that it will open before Christmas with an official date being made before the end of the month. (You would have thought getting it open in time for the Christmas rush would have been important particularly considering the crazy traffic on the quays yesterday evening which was made up of WWW wrestling fans (apparently there was a do in the Point Depot) and trucks and lorries making their way to the port for the evening sailing. Before then there will be a 10km charity race through the tunnel on December 10. More information on that here and here. Sounds like a cool thing to do. And back to tunnel news did you know 5,000 people worked 7.5million people hours constructing the €752m project. At 4.5km long it is the longest urban tunnel in Europe and should transport traffic from the M50 to Dublin Port in six minutes. (The site actually contradicts itself on this fact, on one page it says six minutes while on the map at the front it says 10.) Check out the Dublin Port Tunnel website which has lots of really cool photographs, some of which I am reproducing here. Who knew Star Wars was going on underneath our feet… [...]