Saturday, June 16, 2007

Alps tunnel opens


The world’s longest land tunnel, through the Alps, opened yesterday. The 35km (21mile) Loetschberg tunnel took eight years to build and cost about 4.3 billion Swiss francs (£1.7 billion). High-speed trains from Germany, France and Italy will get skiers to Swiss ski resorts more quickly.

President Bush immediately announced he saw a light at the end of it and he would stand down as the Swiss stood up.

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