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Telt, the Italian-French state company in charge of the construction of the cross-border section of the Turin-Lyon TAV, has announced the award of the one billion euro contract for the construction of the Italian section of the work.This is, in the intentions of the company's CEO, Maurizio Bufalini, the "historic milestone" that will start the excavation work of the Mont Cenis base tunnel, which divides Italy and France.If everything went according to Telt's designs, it would take 91 months to build the two tubes of the base tunnel and the Maddalena 2 tunnel (from which the tunnel boring machines will descend), the various connection tunnels and the connecting branches between the two tubes, as well as to the Clarea safety site and the artificial tunnel at the eastern entrance to Susa, for a total of 28.5 km of excavations.But there remain many unknowns for the great symbolic work that has been hanging over the Susa Valley for 30 years.Starting with the protests of the popula...