Medway Tunnel
Tunnel linking Strood with Chatham in Kent, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Medway Tunnel is a tunnel under the River Medway linking Strood with Chatham in Kent, England. It forms part of the A289 Medway Towns Northern Relief Road. The Medway Tunnel is the first immersed tube tunnel to be built in England and only the second of this type in the UK, the other at Conwy, North Wales.[1]
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Location | connecting Strood to Chatham in Kent, UK |
Coordinates | 51.400357°N 0.526721°E / 51.400357; 0.526721 |
Status | active |
Route | A289 connecting Strood with Chatham in Kent, under the River Medway, in the UK |
Crosses | River Medway |
Operation | |
Constructed | May 1992 – June 1996 |
Opened | 22 June 1996; 27 years ago (1996-06-22) |
Operator | Medway Council |
Traffic | vehicle |
Character | public |
Toll | none (free) |
Technical | |
Length | 2,360 ft (720 m) |
No. of lanes | 2 (each way) |
Operating speed | 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) |
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