If drillers, the Bamco consortium, can keep up the current pace, the drill could arrive at Keleti train station, the planned terminus, by the middle of June.

The drill started out from Rákóczi tér station on March 8 and took five weeks to cover the 450 metres to Népszínház utca. The drill boring the parallel tunnel started out a few days later."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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