Talk:Sasago Tunnel

Tunnel length
Why is our figure for the length of the tunnel different from that given on the German and Japanese pages (4,656.2 m)?
 * I dunno, the sign in the photo clearly shows 4784 m. Abductive  (reasoning) 01:55, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, that 4,656.2 m figure is for a nearby train tunnel also called Sagaso tunnel. Abductive  (reasoning) 02:05, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * If this is true, the train tunnel given the same name should also be mentioned in the article. Reify-tech (talk) 15:11, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Additional Information
I live in Japan and locals have discussed the following, which is also on the Japanese wikipedia page. Here's a translation. Feel free to add this to the article proper.

This is not the first time something like this has happened. In 1996 the Toyohama tunnel near Furubira, Hokkaido, Japan, had a similar collapse where the panels flattened a bus and instantly killed 20 people. It took them weeks to get into the tunnel and to the bodies. Notably, in both instances, there were earthquakes that had hit the area -- in Furubira, there had been an earthquake a few years before, while last year the Sendai earthquake hit a huge chunk of Honshu. After the Toyohama collapse the entire coastal road of western Hokkaido was rebuilt, starting with the Toyohama tunnel, and phasing out the older tunnels with the panels in the roof in favor of higher-arched fan-containing tunnels. Kaerondaes (talk) 08:28, 4 December 2012 (UTC)


 * If you search Wikipedia for "Toyohama", it isn't completely clear whether the the Toyohama incident was due to ceiling panel failure or some other cause. What you report here seems notable, and should be added to the article, with references.  If you can read Japanese, please help with this.  Extensive removal of ceiling panels and remodeling of other tunnels is notable; if it can be referenced, it might be mentioned in the Big Dig ceiling collapse article, in addition.  Reify-tech (talk) 15:11, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

This would also make the 'deadlist accident' claim suspect. This collapse is mentioned (briefly) in the Sky News source article f o r this page. 71.96.51.59 (talk) 13:22, 27 January 2016 (UTC)