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It beats the 10.6-mile (17-kilometer) St. Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland to become the planet's longest road tunnel. The toll-free Laerdal tunnel cost about $113.1 million to build. "Throughout ...

Wearing a red hard hat and carrying a backpack with an emergency oxygen tank, I’m sweating as I get a rare look at the newest wonder of the world—the 35.4-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel ...

For the Neue Luzerner Zeitung, “the new Gotthard Tunnel is not only an incredible feat of Swiss precision and engineering, it is also a masterpiece of direct democracy [two-thirds of Swiss ...

“Compared with other tunnels in Europe, and all over the world, the safety level in the Gotthard Tunnel is quite high,” says Hubert Roegg, director of the Swiss Institute for Safety and Security.