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world's longest and deepest traffic tunnel?

The article says this will be the "world's longest and deepest traffic tunnel." What exactly is a "traffic tunnel?" That term is not used on List of longest tunnels in the world to classify tunnels. Line 3, Guangzhou Metro and Line 10, Beijing Subway are metro area subway tunnels that are currently operational and longer than the Gotthard Base Tunnel.

Semi-related, some English language news articles call this the "NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel".^[1][2] The word NEAT never appears in this article. I learned from AlpTransit that it's the German language abbreviation. I'm wondering if we should work at least "NEAT" into this article. I added a redirect for NEAT Gotthard base tunnel so that people can at least search for the term. --Marc Kupper|talk 07:10, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Though the acronym NEAT (Neue Eisenbahn-Alpentransversale) rarely appears in English coverage of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, I was intrigued by and am grateful for your mention of it.—Judgtastic (talk) 06:14, 8 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Granted, AlpTransit is an English article in which Neue Eisenbahn-Alpentransversale has for many years been mentioned.—Judgtastic (talk) 09:58, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Details on deaths

Do we really need to list the full identities of the workers who died during the construction as well as the details of their gruesome deaths? How exactly does this improve this article? T v x1 01:03, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Construction Items?

Using this as a reference: https://www.herrenknecht.com/en/references/case-studies/gotthard-base-tunnel.html it looks like the "Construction" section has several 'inconsistencies', especially in the graphic.

189.250.226.116 (talk) 03:39, 12 December 2016 (UTC) Baden K.[reply]

"is used to be quoted with"

Could whoever wrote this article in English - presumably not a native speaker of the language - please explain what the phrase "is used to be quoted with" is supposed to mean in the sentence "The then in charge transport minister, Federal Councilor Moritz Leuenberger, is used to be quoted with: 'This is the only way to make the railway [the Gotthard axis] a flat line between Basel and Chiasso.'"? The whole sentence is dubious English ("the then in charge transport minister" looks like a literal translation from German), but the six words in the title of this comment are completely meaningless. As so often, how I wish non-native users of English would have their Wikipedia articles checked by a native, rather than just post them and expect people to understand!188.230.248.85 (talk) 11:59, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]