On the eastern side of Frankfurt, with years of talking over it....there's supposed to be a tunnel connection for autobahn 661.....often called the Wiederwald Tunnel project.
For a long time, it was argued that the project would cost in the range of 477 million Euro.
Well...in the last day or two, they came to admit that the cost factor of the tunnel is wrong, and it's about 1-billion Euro on top of the original estimate.
How long is this tunnel? This gets to an interesting topic.
If you ever hung around Frankfurt (east side).....there's a autobahn that was never really finished (connected)....autobahn 66. 66 ends about 1.25 km from the other point where it should have connected.
So this tunnel is about a crazy idea.....you'd dig deep enough not to carve out houses, streets, or businesses, and then run a tunnel for this roughly 1.25 km path.
For a 1.5-billion amount? Well....to be honest, by the time they really reach an end....I would expect the cost factor to be double that....toward 3-billion Euro.
Activists against the tunnel? Yeah, and that's likely to lengthen the process so this end-date of 2033...probably isn't correct either.
How valuable is A66? For a lot of Frankfurt workers who've made the decision to work in the city, but live out away from town....it connected you to the option of living 30 to 50 km to the east. The negative for all these years....A66 just got you onto the outer eastern boundary of the city. So it does make sense to fix/resolve what should have been done forty years ago.
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