{"id":193682,"date":"2024-07-28T06:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T11:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/officials-break-ground-on-worlds-longest-underwater-rail-tunnel-connecting-2-major-cities-a-milestone-in-history"},"modified":"2024-07-28T06:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T11:22:29","slug":"officials-break-ground-on-worlds-longest-underwater-rail-tunnel-connecting-2-major-cities-a-milestone-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/officials-break-ground-on-worlds-longest-underwater-rail-tunnel-connecting-2-major-cities-a-milestone-in-history","title":{"rendered":"Officials break ground on world\u2019s longest underwater rail tunnel connecting 2 major cities: \u2018A milestone in \u2026 history\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nMYBtIc4B3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Construction has begun on what will be the world\u2019s largest underwater road and rail tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany, as Newsweek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/construction-fehmarnbelt-road-rail-tunnel-1915922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">r<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/construction-fehmarnbelt-road-rail-tunnel-1915922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">eported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel, which is a major component of the European Union\u2019s Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor plan, runs beneath the Fehmarn strait for more than 11 miles and aims to cut travel times between the two countries. A 45-minute ferry ride may soon be reduced to a quick seven-minute train commute.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark\u2019s transport minister, Thomas Danielsen, called the project \u201ca milestone in Danish history\u201d at a ceremony celebrating the progress, per the report. He continued, \u201cWith the Fehmarnbelt tunnel, we get a fantastic and cross-border infrastructure project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction has begun on what will be the world\u2019s largest underwater road and rail tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany, as Newsweek reported. The tunnel, which is a major component of the European Union\u2019s Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor plan, runs beneath the Fehmarn strait for more than 11 miles and aims to cut travel times between the two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}