{"id":86005,"date":"2013-10-31T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=86005"},"modified":"2014-01-08T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:33:30","slug":"electricity-failure-in-turkey-tunnel-just-day-after-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/10\/31\/electricity-failure-in-turkey-tunnel-just-day-after-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity failure in Turkey tunnel just day after opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Rail passengers have to walk on tracks to exit 13.6-kilometre undersea tunnel in Istanbul before services resume within few minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86007\" alt=\"_62275_istanbul-tunnel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/62275_istanbul-tunnel.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Power cut<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ISTANBUL &#8211; Rail passengers using Turkey&#8217;s new tunnel under the Bosphorus had to walk part of their journey Wednesday when an electricity failure briefly halted services, just a day after its grand opening.<\/p>\n<p>The 13.6-kilometre (8.5 mile) undersea tunnel in Istanbul &#8212; the world&#8217;s first linking two continents &#8212; was inaugurated with great fanfare on Tuesday as the government&#8217;s &#8220;project of the century&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But a power cut forced passengers to leave the train and walk on the tracks, the Dogan news agency said, before the problem was fixed and services resumed within a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel, the fulfilment of a sultan&#8217;s dream of 150 years ago, is part of a three-billion euro ($4 billion) transport project in Turkey&#8217;s biggest city.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a former mayor of Istanbul, revived the tunnel plan in 2004 as one of his mega projects for the bustling city of 16 million people &#8212; which also include a third airport, a third bridge across the Bosphorus and a canal parallel to the international waterway to ease traffic.<\/p>\n<p>But his grand urban plans were one cause of the massive anti-government protests that swept the country in June, with local residents complaining they were forcing people from their homes and destroying green space.<\/p>\n<p>Transport is a major problem in Istanbul, and each day two million people cross the Bosphorus via two usually jammed bridges.<\/p>\n<p>via .:Middle East Online:::..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rail passengers have to walk on tracks to exit 13.6-kilometre undersea tunnel in Istanbul before services resume within few minutes. Power cut ISTANBUL &#8211; Rail passengers using Turkey&#8217;s new tunnel under the Bosphorus had to walk part of their journey Wednesday when an electricity failure briefly halted services, just a day after its grand opening. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":86007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[5086],"class_list":["post-86005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-marmaray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}