Green light for Stonehenge Tunnel and LTC in UK budget

In the UK Budget today (11^th March), Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak has given the A303 road improvement scheme the go-ahead, green lighting the construction of the controversial 3.2km long Stonehenge Tunnel. In the country’s Second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) – Sunak said the government is boosting regional connectivity and transforming connections through the largest ever investment in England’s strategic roads. Through RIS2 the government will spend over £27bn between 2020 and 2025. Also included in the portfolio of projects to be constructed is the Lower Thames Crossing, a 4.3km long twin-bore tunnel of 16m+ diameter each, which will increase road capacity across the Thames east of London by 90%.

More follows..

Comments:

More Like This

06/09/2020

Segmental considerations

Although the TBM that bores a tunnel usually grabs all the headlines, the importance of the tunnel’s segmental lining design and its placement is not to be underestimated, reports Nicole Robinson for NATJ

11/08/2020

First HS2 TBMs prepare to ship to the UK

HS2 has today (Tuesday 11th August) revealed the first images of the first two completed TBMs that will excavate the 9.1m diameter twin-bore…

06/06/2020

Saturation Intervention

As the ITA updates its guidance on high pressure compressed air working to include saturation interventions, we ask the experts what has changed since work began on the first guide nearly a decade ago.