Victoria Park Tunnel
October 30, 2011
The Victoria Park Road Tunnel is now complete and it was open to the public on Saturday for a “walk through”. The tunnel is only about 400m long and it goes under a park. The park itself is reclaimed land from the 1890s, formerly beach/estuary/mudflats. So the actual digging of the tunnel was not hard work, but apparently there was a lot of rubbish among the landfill, and obviously it is a challenge to keep the water out.
Part of the tunnel construction project involved moving an old pub away and then back again. There is a video at the above link — it’s worth watching.
Anyway, my daughter’s school was involved in the walkthrough so I spent a few hours there collecting donations.
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