{"id":199650,"date":"2024-11-17T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T23:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-longest-underwater-tunnel-in-the-world"},"modified":"2024-11-17T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T23:23:14","slug":"the-longest-underwater-tunnel-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-longest-underwater-tunnel-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Underwater Tunnel in the World"},"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\/5lnZlHEJSx0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spanning 18 kilometers, the new Fehmarn Belt fixed link between Germany and Denmark will be the world\u2019s longest and deepest underwater tunnel, combining road and rail.<\/p>\n<p>Once completed, the tunnel promises to reduce travel time, strengthen ties between Scandinavia and Central Europe, form a greener traffic lane, and boost train transport. The ten billion euro price tag, therefore, promises to be worth it and has the stamp of approval from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/inea\/en\/ten-t\/ten-t-projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Commission\u2019s Ten-T Programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The underwater fixed link tunnel will consist of two two-lane highways divided by a service passage and two separate railways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanning 18 kilometers, the new Fehmarn Belt fixed link between Germany and Denmark will be the world\u2019s longest and deepest underwater tunnel, combining road and rail. Once completed, the tunnel promises to reduce travel time, strengthen ties between Scandinavia and Central Europe, form a greener traffic lane, and boost train transport. The ten billion euro [\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-199650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199650","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=199650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}