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The longest road tunnel in the San Francisco Bay Area as of October 2011 at 3, 771 feet long is the westbound bore of the Caldecott Tunnel, which links the major central Contra Costa County communities of Concord and Walnut Creek with Oakland and the Bay Bridge on the western side.
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Tsing Ma Bridge, part of Route 8 ( Hong Kong ) | Route 8, is List of longest suspension bridges | the world's longest rail and road suspension bridge s.
At ( including the A282 ), the M25 is Europe's second longest orbital road after the Berliner Ring ().
This is the longest road in Puerto Rico.
To this day the Via Appia contains the longest stretch of straight road in Europe, totaling.
* In 1999, the town of Merredin, Western Australia officially made it into the Guinness Book of Records, when Marleys Transport made a successful attempt on the record for the world's longest road train.
* On February 18, 2006, an Australian built Mack truck with 112 semi-trailers, and long, pulled the load to recapture the record for the longest road train ( multiple loaded trailers ) ever pulled with a single prime mover.
The longest continuous highways are National Route 40, a 5000-km stretch along the Andes range and the 3000-km sea-side trunk road National Route 3, running from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia.
The Øresund Bridge is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe, and connects two major metropolitan areas: those of the Danish capital city Copenhagen and the major Swedish city Malmö.
This forced them on the longest road trips in the NBA ; their nearest divisional opponent was the Houston Rockets, over 900 miles from Miami.
In addition, the 1995 – 96 squad holds several other records, including the best road record in a standard 41-road-game season ( 33 – 8 ), the all-time best start by a team ( 41 – 3 ), the longest home winning streak ( 44 games, 7 from previous season ), and the best start at home ( 37 – 0 ).
" The Spurs have consistently posted winning road records during this period, including an NBA-record longest single road trip winning streak ( 8 games out of 9, achieved in 2003 ).
However, they buckled under the strain of some of the longest road trips in the league — their nearest division rival, the Blues, were over 1, 000 miles away — and finished in last place.
In the 2009 – 10 season, the Canucks faced the longest road trip in NHL history, with 14 games over 6 weeks, from January 27 to March 13, 2010.
At 3, 365 miles, US 20 is the longest road in the United States.
This make the longest open road race in the country, averaging a total of.
A popular spot for cycling, Bend has over 300 miles of mountain bike trails and is the home to the Cascade Cycling Classic, the nation's longest running stage race for road bicycle racing.
The lengthy, famous U. S. Route 11 that stretches from Canada to Louisiana runs across Forty Fort on Wyoming Avenue, which is the longest non-highway road in all of northeastern Pennsylvania.
At around, it is one of the longest road bridges in Europe, and slopes gradually downward towards Dundee.
It is the longest road traffic tunnel in the Netherlands.
The Hindhead Tunnel is a twin bore tunnel, which cost £ 371 million to construct, and is the longest non-estuarial road tunnel in the UK.
By 1971, the full route was completed between the junction with the M1 motorway at Rugby and the A38 road several miles north-east of Birmingham city centre, including Bromford Viaduct between Castle Bromwich ( J5 ) and Gravelly Hill ( J6 ), which at 3½ miles is the longest viaduct in Great Britain.
This may possibly have been the longest single section of straight road in England.
The longest road boundary is that along Deans Avenue on the western side adjacent to the suburb of Riccarton.
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The most modern, and at the same time the longest Croatian tunnel, is also along the A1: the Mala Kapela Tunnel ( length 5, 780 m ), which passes through the Mala Kapela mountain range.
At, the Channel Tunnel possesses the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world, although the Seikan Tunnel in Japan is both longer overall at and deeper at below sea level.
* 1983 – The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel ( 53. 85 km ) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
* 1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10. 14 miles ( 16. 224 km ) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
As of 2007 it is the second-longest rail tunnel in the world, but with the undersea section of being the longest undersea tunnel in the world.
* September 5 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10. 14 miles ( 16. 32 km ), stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
The Chinese built 15 tunnels for Central Pacific, the longest of which, the summit tunnel, reached 1659 feet.
* Delaware Aqueduct, in New York State, United States – at 85 miles ( 137 km ) long, the world's longest continuous underground tunnel.
In March 1985, after 23 years of labor and a financial investment of 700 billion yen, the Seikan Tunnel finally linked the islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, thereby becoming the longest tunnel of its kind in the world.
The Gotthard Base Tunnel, currently under construction, will be List of longest tunnels in the world | the longest railroad tunnel in the world
When completed, it will be the longest tunnel in the world, reducing travel time between Zürich and Lugano to 1 hour 40 minutes.
The tunnel from Morden to East Finchley via Bank, 17 miles 528 yards ( 27. 841 km ), was for a time the longest in the world.
* Kiel Canal Pedestrian Tunnel, longest pedestrian tunnel in the world
At the time of opening it was the longest railway tunnel in the world, though the Standedge Tunnel and several other canal tunnels were longer.
A car tunnel, the longest in Sweden, connects Muskö to the mainland.
A cross-country ski tunnel, which is also the world's longest, opened on June 16, 2006.
The concept calls for drilling a tunnel through the longest axis of a large asteroid of iron or nickel-iron composition and filling it with a volatile substance, possibly water.
When completed in 1905, it was the longest free-standing ( i. e., with no columnar supports ) tunnel in the world.
It includes Sapperton Tunnel, which when built was the longest canal tunnel in Britain, and remains the third longest.
This railway line incorporated the ( then ) longest tunnel in the world, the 2, 885-yard Summit Tunnel.
At the time of construction, Norwood Tunnel was the joint longest canal tunnel in Britain, and it was sixth longest by the time it collapsed.
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