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Description: Waterview tunnel project (Mt Roskill end) open day. Boring machine and tunnel construction on view. 22,000 visits over the day. The Waterview Connection is a motorway section under construction through west/central Auckland, New Zealand. It is to connect the stub of State Highway 20 in the south from Mt Roskill to join up with another motorway, State Highway 16 in the west at Point Chevalier, and is a part of the Western Ring Route. It was formerly known as the SH20 Avondale extension. The Waterview link will be 4.5 km long, of which 2.5 km are to be in a mostly bored twin tunnel, with three lanes in each tunnel. 13 October 2013 source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterview_Connection
Title: Alice the Tunnel Boring Machine 1955 (10281162606) (3)
Credit: Alice the Tunnel Boring Machine_1955
Author: Noel Jones
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