Hindhead Tunnel

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Hindhead Tunnel is a tunnel being built on the A3 road in Hindhead, Surrey, due for completion in 2011.cite web |url=http://www.tunnels.mottmac.com/projects/?mode=type&id=3402 |author=Mott MacDonald |title=Trunk road tunnel benefits environment and cuts journey times |accessdate=2007-06-01] Advance works started in January 2007, and main construction works, including the tunnelling, started in 2008.Cite web |url = http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/3832.aspx | accessdate=2007-06-01 |author=Highways Agency |title=A3 Hindhead Improvement |work = Department for Transport] It forms part of a wider "Targeted Improvement Plan" to upgrade the final single carriageway section of the London to Portsmouth road to dual carriageway.Cite web |url = http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/3832.aspx | accessdate=2007-06-01 |author=Highways Agency |title=A3 Hindhead Improvement |work = Department for Transport] At 1.8 km, the tunnel will be the longest non-estuarial road tunnel in the United Kingdom, and is required to take the new road beneath the Devil's Punch Bowl, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

See also

* List of tunnels in the United Kingdom

References

External links

* [http://a3tunnel.blogspot.com/ The A3 Tunnel] locally-based photographs & news about the tunnel construction. (Unofficial site)
* [http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/3832.aspx Highways Agency project information]
* The News (Portsmouth) - [http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=456&articleid=2921229 virtual experience of driving through the Hindhead Tunnel]
* cite press release
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