Tunnel-Boring Machine Lowered Into Place To Begin Miami Port Tunnel Dig
Author: peter Date: 14 November, Category: Fact, Visits 2623
A worker prepares the [Cutter Head] of the Port Tunnel boring machine for attachment to the tunneling machine on September 1, 2011 in Miami, Florida. The $45 million machine is longer than a football field and about as tall as a four-story building and it will carve the twin tunnels connecting Watson Island and Dodge Island. The the new $1 billion Port of Miami tunnel is expected to be completed in May of 2014. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)