{"id":28475,"date":"2016-07-30T00:49:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T07:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/norway-to-build-worlds-first-floating-underwater-traffic-tunnels"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:29:09","slug":"norway-to-build-worlds-first-floating-underwater-traffic-tunnels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/norway-to-build-worlds-first-floating-underwater-traffic-tunnels","title":{"rendered":"Norway to build world\u2019s first floating underwater traffic tunnels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/norway-to-build-worlds-first-floating-underwater-traffic-tunnels.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/tag\/norway\/\">Norway<\/a> has hatched ambitious plans to install the world\u2019s first floating underwater tunnels to help travelers easily cross the nation\u2019s many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjords.com\/\">fjords<\/a>. At present, the only way to travel across the bodies of water involves taking a series of ferries \u2013 an inconvenient and time-consuming process. The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/07\/submerged-floating-bridge-isnt-worst-idea-norways-ever\/\">submerged floating bridges<\/a>\u201d would consist of large tubes suspended under 100 feet of water, and each one will be wide enough for two lanes of traffic.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/norway-to-build-worlds-first-floating-underwater-traffic-tunnels\/\">http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/norway-to-build-worlds-first-floating-u...c-tunnels\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway has hatched ambitious plans to install the world\u2019s first floating underwater tunnels to help travelers easily cross the nation\u2019s many fjords. At present, the only way to travel across the bodies of water involves taking a series of ferries \u2013 an inconvenient and time-consuming process. The \u201csubmerged floating bridges\u201d would consist of large tubes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66729,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475\/revisions\/66729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}