Workers in Slovakia have broken through the first of two passages in a tunnel near Zilina as part of an 11km D1 highway project.
Breakthrough of the second passage of the tunnel on the section Hricovske Podhradie-Lietavska Lucka will likely be in January. Around 80m are still to be bored, according to a report in the Slovak Spectator on-line newspaper.
Zilina is in northwestern Slovakia, around 200km from the capital Bratislava and close to the Czech and Polish borders.
Juraj Valent, head of the Na