Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers have attempted to use the tunnel to enter the UK, causing a minor diplomatic disagreement over the siting of the Sangatte refugee camp, which was eventually closed in 2002.

A tunnel under Broad Street connects the Old and New Bodleian buildings, and contains a pedestrian walkway, a mechanical book conveyor and a pneumatic Lamson tube system which was used for book orders until an electronic automated stack request system was introduced in 2002.

To date several galleries have been redesigned, notably, in 2002: the main Silver Gallery, Contemporary ; in 2003: Photography, the main entrance, The Painting Galleries ; in 2004: the tunnel to the subway leading to South Kensington tube station, New signage throughout the museum, architecture, V & A and RIBA reading rooms and stores, metalware, Members ' Room, contemporary glass, the Gilbert Bayes sculpture gallery ; in 2005: portrait miniatures, prints and drawings, displays in Room 117, the garden, sacred silver and stained glass ; in 2006: Central Hall Shop, Islamic Middle East, the new café, sculpture galleries.

Before 1976, the tunnel was the only point of passage at the top, at an altitude of 2556 m. The tunnel was closed for restoration until 2002, and a new road was constructed over the summit.

The original summit was at 2556 m .; while the tunnel was closed from 1976 until 2002, the tour route went only over the pass closer to the mountain peak at 2645 m. In 2011, the Tour de France went through the tunnel for the first time during the 19th stage from Modane Valfréjus to L ' Alpe d ' Huez.

The Aktio-Preveza Immersed Tunnel, the first and so far only undersea tunnel in Greece, was completed in 2002 and connects Preveza to Aktio in western Acarnania in the region of Aetolia-Acarnania.

* Immersed tunnel of Preveza – Aktion ( 2002 )

The towers were Grade II listed in 2000, and the new tunnel itself was refurbished in 2002.

As part of the long-term capital improvement plan dated September 12, 2002, Metro has proposed building an underground pedestrian tunnel connecting this station with Farragut West.

The construction of the station required the excavation of almost 1. 4 million tonnes of hard rock to build the machine hall and a 10 km tailrace tunnel, with a second parallel tailrace tunnel completed in 2002 to increase the station's capacity.

* 2002, the second tunnel was commissioned.

As part of its long-term capital improvement plan dated September 12, 2002, Metro has proposed building an underground pedestrian tunnel connecting this station with Farragut North.

Under construction since 2002 and projected to be completed by late 2017, the Gotthard Base Tunnel ( a second rail tunnel, 57 km long ), will be longer than the first one.

The 2002 season saw the addition of a long-awaited infield pedestrian tunnel, allowing access into and out of the infield during on-track activity.

Since 2002, Vágar has had a toll road connection via a tunnel to the neighbouring island of Streymoy, where the Faroese capital Tórshavn is located.

In 2002, it was also proposed by John Banks that the Eastern Transport Corridor might link into a harbour tunnel starting north of Parnell, and linking to Ngataringa Bay near Devonport, for an estimated cost of $ 1 billion.

In 2002 a tour bus carrying tourists from Singapore caught fire inside the tunnel, halting 150 m from the eastern portal.

In 2002, new plans for a bored tunnel of 1. 3 miles ( 2. 1km ) were announced by the Secretary of State for Transport as part of a 7. 7 mile ( 12. 5km ) plan to upgrade the A303 to dual carriageway status, with the tunnel estimated to cost £ 183m.

The military erected a fence in 2002 to block a deer tunnel underneath the freeway that led into the Marine base, due to concerns that the tunnel would be used to gain unauthorized access to the base in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

OSCE experts estimate that between 116, 000 and 147, 000 people left Armenia for economic reasons between 2002 and 2004, with two-thirds of them returning home by February 2005.

As of late 2002, the Navy had reportedly become responsible for flying all aircraft with the rivalry having subsided between the two branches of the armed forces.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

The Lambert Report into the channel's performance in 2002 called upon News 24 to develop a better brand of its own, to allow viewers to differentiate between itself and similar channels such as Sky News.

Formally, as per the 2002 Memorandum of Understanding between the BSI and the United Kingdom Government, British Standards are defined as:

It is the most successful AFL club of the last decade ( 2000 – 2009 ), having appeared in four consecutive AFL Grand Finals between 2001 and 2004, winning three premierships ( 2001, 2002 and 2003 ).

fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; equipment is old and outdated, and connections with many parts of the country are unreliable ; mobile-cellular usage, in part a reflection of the poor condition and general inadequacy of the fixed-line network, increased more than 6-fold between 2002 and 2007 reaching a subscribership base of 25 per 100 persons

Bilateral relations have beenvery good: in 2002, for example, the trade value between our two countries reached US $ 1. 8 million, in Chinese exports of light industry products and miscellaneous goods.

This terror and the crimes carried out during MLC's war against Bozizé's rebels between October 2002 and March 2003 is now being investigated by the International Criminal Court, which says it has identified 600 rape victims and the real numbers are expected to be higher.

From 2002 until 2011 Cote d ' Ivoire was split by the rebellion between the existing government in the south and the Forces Nouvelles in the north.

Its 2002 / 2003 / 2004 funding includes around $ 10 million for economic development, up to $ 5 million for the development of democratic institutions, about $ 5 million for the return of population affected by war and between 2 and 3 million dollars for the " mitigation of adverse social conditions and trends ".

UN-sponsored talks between the Greek and Turkish leaders, Glafkos Klerides and Rauf Denktaş, continued intensively in 2002, but without resolution.

However, the economic downturn between 1999 and 2002 adversely affected telecommunications.

The Chinese government in 2003 acknowledged that it had lost track of 121 tons of ivory between 1991 and 2002.

The journal Pediatrics has reportedly said that the number of cheerleaders suffering from broken bones, concussions, and sprains has increased by over 100 percent between the years of 1990 and 2002, and that in 2001 there were 25, 000 hospital visits reported for cheerleading injuries dealing with the shoulder, ankle, head, and neck.

Since 2002, molecular phylogenetic studies have recognized a close relationship between Hydrochoerus and Kerodon supporting placement of both genera in a subfamily of Caviidae.

The last one occurred in 2002 between May 21 and June 8.

The difference in colour between the red cold population and more heterogeneous hot population was observed as early as in 2002.

However, with an agreement in 2001 between the UUA and CUC, from July 2002 onwards most services have been provided by the CUC to its own member congregations.

Talks between Kabila and the rebel leaders, held in Sun City, lasted a full six weeks, beginning in April 2002.

Production of this model was between May 2001 and October 2002

* 2002 – The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be " CARICOM-Cuba Day "— to celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) and Cuba.

As the first part of a 10-year Road Sector Development Program, between 1997 and 2002 the Ethiopian government began a sustained effort to improve its infrastructure of roads.

* An agreement concerning the use of the Port of Djibouti and the transit of cargo, was signed in Djibouti between the two countries on 13 April 2002, and ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 4 June of the same year.