Hall of FameSicily's A20 - more tunnel than motorway On 21st December, 2004 the 41.2 km Furiano-Castelbuono section was opened to complete the A20 Messina-Palermo motorway in Sicily, Italy. On the opposite carriageway, for technical reasons, only a shorter section was opened (Furiano-Tusa, 30 km). However, the A20 will be totally completed in April 2005. A difficult geology and orography have slowed down the construction.On the final 30.6 km between Castelbuono and Caronia there are 16 tunnels with total length of about 18 km which, added to those previously completed, give the A20 the world record for the motorway with most metres in tunnel. With 110.309 km (that will became 117.121 km in April), the A20 roundly beats the previous champion, the A10 from Genoa to the French border, which has 93.779 km. On the third step of this hypothetic podium, we find the Gotthard motorway (A2), in Switzerland, with 89.757 m. Austrian Pyhrn Autobahn follows temporarily with 72.018 m. The Gotthard A2 motorway in Switzerland is No 3 with 89.757 km and the Austrian Pyhrn Autobahn currently has 72.018 km. In terms of length of tunnel for each km of highway the A20 has 650.3 m/km, the A10 has 596.9 m/km, while the A32 Turin-Frejus motorway takes third place with 473.4 m/km. Submitted by reader eugenio.merzagora@libero.it, source: Strade&Autostrade magazine, No. 49. More on www.stradeeautostrade.it 14/05.