alt Hacker NewsActually, the tunnel itself was only 17 years:
1998: Start of construction of the Koralm Railway
2008: Start of construction of the Koralm Tunnel
2018: Breakthrough Koralm Tunnel
2020: Final Koralm tunnel breakthrough
2025: This announcement (https://orf.at/stories/3414173/ in German)
https://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railwa...
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alephnerd • last Friday at 2:37 PM
Given the terrain and the amount of tunneling needed, completing such a project in 17 years isn't that bad.
Seems software neckbeards on HN are equally as guilty of underestimating the difficulty of other people's work like the managers they complain about.
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Yeah, the submitted page misses the real news: Ordinary traffic will start tomorrow, Sunday.