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The title is misleading and should be changed.

Are you arguing it should be "the EU is building an $11billion tunnel connecting scandinavia to the mediterranean"?

I agree the tunnel doesn't run from the Med to Scandanavia, or indeed anywhere in Italy to Scandanavia, however that's what the article claims

It should say "through the Alps." That, to me, lines up with how interesting the article is, and is more clear.

HN doesn't typically fix inacurate headlines. I suspect that the "to the mederterranian" would make it too long for HN, "to Italy" is a reasonable contraction without going into editorialising.

However the reason the youtube video goes for "Scandanavia to the Med" is because that's what the corridor is called

https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu...

HN changes titles all the time. Especially when the title is a bit click baity. This one is like saying that the Chunnel connects Saigon to Scotland.

"please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. "

I don't think this is misleading, it's the tunnel that is a key stage in the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor, an official EU project.

"The cross-border alpine connection between Munich and Verona represents a major bottleneck on the corridor and will be alleviated by the construction of the Brenner Base Rail Tunnel, when it

I think the problem is on the other direction. Austria is nowhere near Scandinavia.

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