Lefortovo Tunnel

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Lefortovo Tunnel (Template:Langx) is a road tunnel in the Lefortovo District in Moscow, Russia, opened in 2003. It carries seven lanes of the Third Ring Road. At Script error: No such module "convert". long, it is the fifth longest urban tunnel of Europe (after the M30 RingRoad tunnels in Madrid at Script error: No such module "convert"., Blanka tunnel complex in Prague at Script error: No such module "convert"., Södra länken in Stockholm at Script error: No such module "convert"., and the Dublin Port Tunnel at Script error: No such module "convert".). The Third Ring Road was originally planned for a surface alignment across the historic district of Lefortovo; however, public outcry from local residents blocked these plans, and the tunnel was built instead.^[1]

The tunnel runs under the Yauza (river), and water leaks in at some points. The temperature has reached as low as Script error: No such module "convert". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". (as during the winter of 2005), causing the water on the road's surface to freeze.

It has been nicknamed "The Tunnel of Death" (Template:Langx)^[2]^[3] owing to its high accident rate and a viral video circulating around the Internet compiling footage of vehicle accidents (many caused by skidding on ice in winter) recorded by monitoring cameras.