Longest tunnel becomes longer, more expensive

The longest railway tunnel in the Czech Republic will be longer than originally planned, Hospodarske noviny reported. The tunnel between Prague and the town of Beroun was to be 20 kilometres in length, but will now stretch to 25 kilometres, the paper said. Costs, too, have been revised upwards, from 20 billion crowns to 30 billion. The tunnel is set to open in 2016 and will halve the time it takes to get from the capital to Beroun.