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Green light in Switzerland to the construction of the new gallery of the Bözberg
It is the more important participation in the removal of the obstacles to the completion of the transalpine railway corridor that will allow the transport of the semitowings on train
October 8, 2015
The Helvetic federal Office of Transports UFT, approving of the project of railway group SBB CFF FFS, has authorized the immediate start of the construction of the new gallery of the Bözberg, that it is one of the 12 galleries object of participations for the creation of the transalpine railway corridor that will allow to transport on track semitows with height to the angles of four meters, contributing so to the transfer of the transalpine traffic goods from the road to the train. That of the Bözberg is the participation more important between those destined ones to value the axis of Saint Gottardo which corridor of four meters that give 2020 will connect Basel with Uproar.
The project of SBB CFF FFS previews the substitution of the gallery of the existing Bözberg with a tunnel of new construction between Effingen and Schinznach-Dorf. The realization of the new gallery is financed with 350 million franchi Swiss in the within of the deep ones for 710 million franchi Swiss allocated from the Helvetic Parliament for the realization of the participations of minor and greater entity necessary in order to remove the obstacles (about 80) for the creation of the corridor.
The current gallery of the Bözberg, to not suitable binary double quantity and to the passage on track of semitowings of four meters, will act as tunnel of service and rescue for the new gallery, with which it will be connected by five passages used after escape ways.
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The Helvetic federal Office of Transports UFT, approving of the project of railway group SBB CFF FFS, has authorized the immediate start of the construction of the new gallery of the Bözberg, that it is one of the 12 galleries object of participations for the creation of the transalpine railway corridor that will allow to transport on track semitows with height to the angles of four meters, contributing so to the transfer of the transalpine traffic goods from the road to the train. That of the Bözberg is the participation more important between those destined ones to value the axis of Saint Gottardo which corridor of four meters that give 2020 will connect Basel with Uproar.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
