The engineering challenges of Grand Paris Express, Europe’s largest transport infrastructure project
03 July 2023
Part infrastructure upgrade, part social cohesion project, part carbon reduction strategy, the Grand Paris Express, which is scheduled to complete in 2030, will double the size of the Paris Métro. Société du Grand Paris boss, Bernard Cathelain, tells KHL’s Lucy Barnard about the engineering challenges behind Europe’s largest transport infrastructure project
Worming their way in an enormous figure of eight under the French towns and countryside of the Greater Paris area, dozens of enormous tunnel boring machines have been slowly drilling 200 kilometers of underground passages.
The Grand Paris Express is currently Europe’s largest transport infrastructure project and the fourth largest…
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