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
Analysis-From 'Icarus bug' to flawed panels: Airbus counts cost of relying on single model - 2Affordable Care Act enrollment is slightly ahead of last year, despite expiring subsidies
- 3Space Condos to Lift Your Metropolitan Living
- 4From Overpowered to Coordinated: Individual Accounts of Cleaning up
- 5A 3-limbed Kemp's ridley sea turtle is now being tracked at sea by satellite
- Manual for Big name Work out schedules
- Slims down for Maintainable Weight reduction
- Human evolution’s biggest mystery has started to unravel. How 2025 tipped the scales
- Police investigate Lahav 433 officer accused of sexually harassing subordinate policewoman
- What is colostrum? And should you be taking it?
- Rediscovering Euphoria: Individual Accounts of Conquering Despondency
- $1,000 bribes, Mormon momfluencer mixers and making content to get plastic surgery: The wildest things I learned reporting my book
- Manual for Instructive Application for Youngsters
- The Benefits of Rehearsing Careful Nurturing
