London’s New, $20 Billion Subway Line: A Tour
Crossrail will run for 60 miles, adding 10 new stations underneath London and bringing mass transit to 1.5 million more people.
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The most congested city in all Europe is London. The traffic that chokes England's capital is legendarily bad and is only expected to get worse.
Crossrail is a £15 billion ($20.25 billion), multiyear attempt to arrest that downward spiral. The project will add a new line, the Elizabeth Line, to London's Underground. Since it began in 2009, it has been Europe's largest construction project. While London has gone about its business, giant tunnel-boring machines have been burrowing underneath the city, navigating an already crowded subterranean infrastructure to find a path for new subway tunnels.