Kathmandu is set in a bowl valley in the foothills of the Himalayas. It has more heritage sites than any other city in the world and is the economic powerhouse for the developing nation of Nepal.

It has a bustling society and an irreplaceable culture, but what it does not have is a public transport system. With the roads heavily congested, almost to the point of being unusable, and surface space crowded with temples, the only option is to go underground.

The problems are that little Nepal has limited funds, and no prior experience of urban tunnelling. The economic argument is already being put to authorities, but the project advocates also need help from the international tunnelling community.

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Binod Lal Amatya, Geotechnical Expert, Arcadis

RESOURCES

For a collection of Binod’s publications about the metro published in The Kathmandu Post, click here.

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