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trailer world Issue One 2013

    Issue One 2013  9 The Marmaray Project is currently the biggest building site in Europe: From autumn this year, a railway tunnel will connect Europe to Asia. The project of the century Behind an unprepossessing fence in the Istanbul suburb of Üskü- dar, there is a major building site that may well have given Tur- key an entry into the Guinness book of records. This is where one of four underground stations is being built for the new underground railway that will connect Asia and Europe. At its deepest point, it passes 60 metres under the surface of the Bosphorus, and is locat- ed only about 20 kilometres away from one of the most hazardous places in the world: the North Anatolian Fault. Every year the city of Istanbul is shaken by around 10,000 minor earthquakes, triggered when the African and Anatolian continental plates grind togeth- er. Nevertheless, the risk of a catastrophic quake is growing year by year – a major challenge for the tunnel builders. At present, the building site in Üsküdar on the Asiatic side of Istanbul can only be reached by one of the emergency exits. Many steps lead down to the bottom, 28 metres below the surface of the earth. The dimensions of the station are those of an Olympic swimming pool, and some of the walls have already been tiled in blue and turquoise. An employee of the Ministry of Transport guides us about 800 metres through Title

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