Lefortovo Tunnel
Lefortovo tunnel (Template:Lang-ru) is a road tunnel in the Lefortovo District in Moscow, Russia, opened in 2003. It is a part of the Third Ring Road. At 2.2 km (1.4 miles) long, it is the seventh longest in-city tunnel of Europe (after the Södra länken in Stockholm at 4.7 km, the Dublin Port Tunnel at 4.5 km, the Giovanni XXIII Tunnel in Rome at 2.9 km, North-Western Tunnel in Moscow at 2.8 km, the Leopold II tunnel in Brussels at 2.7 km and the Prado-Carénage Tunnel in Marseille at 2.45 km).
The tunnel runs under the Yauza River, and water leaks in at some points. The temperature can reach as low as −38 [citation needed] degrees Celsius (as during the winter of 2005), causing the water on the road's surface to freeze.
It has been nicknamed "The Tunnel of Death" due to its high accident rate and a viral video circulating around the Internet compiling footage of vehicle accidents recorded by monitoring cameras.
External links
- Moscow-Lefortovo Tunnel at Structurae
- Tunnel boring equipment from construction
- Street map, showing the Lefortovo tunnel as a double dotted line
- Lefortovo monitoring structure monitoring
- Video of Lefortovo Tunnel crashes Clean version: Лефортово - тоннель смерти
55°45′51″N 37°42′06″E / 55.764068°N 37.701645°E
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