The Mont Blanc road tunnel linking France and Italy reopened to traffic on Friday following the completion of construction work.
Webcam video on the tunnel's website showed vehicles passing through toll booths in the evening. Traffic conditions were normal in both directions, the tunnel’s telephone information service said.
The 11-kilometre tunnel had been closed for 15 weeks for work on its vault structure, forcing motorists to use alternative routes and face significantly longer travel times.
The reopening follows hundreds of safety tests carried out by tunnel operators in recent weeks. The tunnel was also closed for several weeks last year for similar structural work.
The Mont Blanc Tunnel in the Alps was inaugurated in 1965. At the time, it was the longest road tunnel in the world.
latest_posts
- 1
All that You Really want to Be familiar with Dental Inserts Facilities - 2‘Slender Man’ attacker back in custody. What we know about Morgan Geyser's disappearance and what happens next.
- 3Agricultural drones are taking off globally, saving farmers time and money
- 4Full Supreme Court to hear challenge to Judicial Selection Committee law
- 5Surveys of 6 Hot Savvy Beds
- Geminid meteor shower, one of the year's most reliable, peaks this weekend
- Russian drone slams into block of flats in deadly wave of strikes across Kyiv
- People can't get enough of this couple's Hallmark movie reviews. They don't know the painful backstory.
- 5 Home Improvement Styles: Decision in favor of Your #1
- Chinese astronauts’ return to Earth delayed over fears spaceship damaged by debris
- Map shows more than 1,900 measles cases across U.S.
- Scientists find evidence that an asteroid contains tryptophan
- What's an atmospheric river? AP explains the weather phenomenon
- Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' trailer drops: What we know about the alien movie
