Dutch workers successfully building tunnel under A12 freeway in just one weekend

When it comes to construction works, the Dutch are for sure the world’s best and a video appears to support the assertion.

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Dutch freeway near Schiphol, Amsterdam (foxcrawl.com)

The footage, which was posted on the Google-owned video-sharing website Youtube, shows how the Dutch workers assembled a tunnel under the A12, a motorway linking the cities of The Hague and Arnhem, in just one weekend sparking jealousy around the world.

The source of the video is Rijkswaterstaat, the former Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, now part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.

Rijkswaterstaat was the sponsor of the project called “Widening of A12 freeway between Ede and Grijsoord junction”. The 80 million Euro job was granted in 2014 to the famed Dutch company Heijmans Infrastructure and included the widening of 11 kilometers of motorway from two to three lanes.

The “high-speed works” ignited the delight of the Youtube users who praised the effectiveness of the people in the Netherlands while making hilarious remarks about the bureaucratic systems in their own countries.

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“In Belgium this would take some more years than expected, not due to lack speed. They would have discovered that they were at the wrong location,” wrote a funny Belgian while another user from the other side of Earth said: “In Australia they would have found some rare frog and then spent 5 years doing environmental studies only to figure out there are lots of those f*** frogs in the next suburb pissing themselves laughing.”

As for Canada, someone said: “Amazing, here it would take approximately 2 years and they would shut down whole city to do it :-)”, with a Swedish adding: “In Sweden this would take 4 years because of all the “mandatory” coffee breaks”.

Video: Timelapse 70-meter-long tunnel under A12 motorway in the Netherlands

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