TUNNEL UNDER RIVER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 September 1928, Page 5

TUNNEL UNDER RIVER.

- A TEN Ml E LION. SCHEME. UNITED STATES TO CANADA. NEW YORK, Aug. ?. A new ilink, piercing the water boundary between Canada and the United States, is alb put to be forged in the shape of a tunnel for vehicular traffic to Connect Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, at a cost of £10,000,000. Associated with the project, and included in The dost, wild !be the world’s largest steel bridge to join the border cities. Giant dlredggs, Wielding seven Arm buckets, have ibegun eating into the opposite shores of the Detroit River te prepare the approaches of the tunnel, which will be financed with American and Canadian capital. The tunnel will be 30ft below the ,river and will! be constructed of steel and reinforced concrete. Work is to be completed in two The subway will be brilliantly illuminated aiwl equipped with signals, telephones and a sidewalk. It will have all modern ventilating and safety uevices similar to those in the Hoi]am tunnel here. Two tubes will be provided. each for one-way traffic, permitting of ‘uniform speed of 35 miles an hour. ' Continuous bus services will bi provided between the terminals. The bridge will be 55ft wide with a roadway sufficient to _ accorninodbte fjw lines of traffic, T-t is to be a 18.>()tt S'pxnn, surcl wHI sttcmtl .1 oOft* aibovc tin? wtater.