EK156 From United Arab Emirates, joined May 2005, 765 posts, RR: 3 Posted (7 years 11 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2369 times:
It's pretty neat! First Tunnel I have ever driven through that runs directly under the airport runways. It was opened to public traffic last month and it is about 1.5 KM in length. And it cuts straight under the airport.
Can you name any other airports that have tunnels that run directly under them?
TOLtommy From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 3224 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (7 years 11 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2306 times:
1.5 km may be among the longest. DTW has 2, one at each road approach to the midfield (NW) terminal. Longer of the 2 is probably less than 1.5 km, but not by much.
Feroze From India, joined Dec 2004, 794 posts, RR: 3 Reply 2, posted (7 years 11 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2289 times:
LHR has a tunnel that goes underneath 27R/9L into the CTA. Probably about 400m in length. A new tunnel has been built for airport vehicles to go between the CTA and T5:
The largest of the tunnels at T5 is the Airside Road Tunnel (ART). Measuring 1.3km in length and 8.1 metres in diameter, a special TBM was designed and built by specialist German company Herrenknecht, to cope with the varying gradients that came as a result of the tunnel's curved route between Heathrow's existing tunnel network. The ART is set to open in February, 2005. It will enable airport vehicles to travel between Terminal 3 and the T5 campus.
DAL767400ER From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 5721 posts, RR: 50 Reply 3, posted (7 years 11 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2279 times:
Quoting EK156 (Thread starter): Can you name any other airports that have tunnels that run directly under them?
LAX has Sepulveda Blvd, which runs underneath the two southern runways.
LAS has the I-215/Airport Connector, which runs underneath the two east-west runways.
Carduelis From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2001, 1585 posts, RR: 11 Reply 4, posted (7 years 11 months 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 2210 times:
Quoting Feroze (Reply 2): LHR has a tunnel that goes underneath 27R/9L into the CTA. Probably about 400m in length. A new tunnel has been built for airport vehicles to go between the CTA and T5:
Additionally, there is another road tunnel from the south of T2 to the South Side of LHR which is not normally open to the public - except for emergencies.
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