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Calgary Airport Tunnel

The Airport Trail Tunnel is a 620 metre tunnel that runs under the new Calgary International Airport runway and will extend Airport Trail from Barlow Trail to 36 Street N.E. The cost for the construction of this tunnel is $295 million

 

Tunnel interesting facts

During tunnel construction over 600,000 cubic metres of earth and rock was excavated.

 

12,000 tonnes of reinforcing steel was installed, equivalent to about thirty 747 airplanes.

 

A total of 58,000 cubic metres of concrete was poured during the construction of the tunnel.

 

Thirty-two 100-horsepower exhaust jet fans, weighing 2,000 pounds each, and 1,380 lighting fixtures were installed onto the ceiling of the tunnel.

 

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Uploaded on May 27, 2014
Taken on May 25, 2014