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...ferry from Hälsingborg, got bogged down when a French gendarme sent them on a 30-kilometer detour. The Palermo starters, who ran into the toughest driving of all, had to ferry across the Strait of Messina and take a railroad flatcar ride through the Simplon Tunnel. They also hit fog at Florence and sleet at Milan. Though the Italians got a special dispensation to exceed the rally's maximum 65-kilometer-per-hour average speed (because of time lost at the Simplon Tunnel), they still had trouble with blinding snow along the French stretch from...
Truck Traffic. The seven-mile tunnel, to be finished in three years, will give Europe its first satisfactory truck route to link the industrial complexes of Italy with France, Germany and the Low Countries. Truck traffic over the Alps now takes a road full of steep grades and blocked seven to eight months out of twelve by snow. An alternative all-year route along the Mediterranean is shunned by truckers as hilly and hairpinnish. For tourists, the new tunnel will shorten the present Paris-Rome trip by 85 miles and many low-geared climbing hours...
Locally, the new Route blanche highway will bring together in trade the Chamonix valley on the French side of the mountain and the Aosta valley on the Italian. Aosta hydroelectric projects will be able to pipe power cheaply to France through the tunnel; snowslides make it impracticable to run high tension cables over the Alps...
...wide tunnel will have four lanes and a 15-ft. ceiling, two feet higher than in New York's new Brooklyn-Battery tunnel. It will be more than -three times as long as the present longest highway tunnel, the 2.16-mile tube under the Mersey at Liverpool, England. A 9-ft. duct under the roadway will bring in fresh air, and a duct in the ceiling, with blowers, will take off carbon monoxide...
Fifteen-Minute Toll. To dig the tunnel, contractors will use a mammoth U.S. cutter which fits the tube, rides along on rails, permits 24 electric drills to work at once. Most of Mont Blanc is solid granite, and (with electric drills) this is to the good: in 1880 workers digging the St. Gotthard tunnel in a less solid mountain were killed by rock lapses...