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| Bouygues Construction builds a tunnel in Miami Bouygues Travaux Publics, a subsidiary of French giant Bouygues Construction, is to build a road tunnel in Miami, Florida, for 440 million euros. The contract was awarded by the Miami Access Tunnel project management company in the framework of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) signed with the Florida Department of Transportation. The tunnel will provide the Port of Miami with a second access road, which will be crucial for its development. Situated on Dodge Island, the port is currently served by only a single highway. The new access road, which will link in with the interstate network and MacArthur Causeway, will become the principal route for trucks, decongesting downtown Miami by removing the freight traffic now obliged to pass through it. The project will begin in mid-2010 and will last four and a half years (55 months). It will involve roughly 750 people at peak periods. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |