Bridge connecting Ireland to Britain

tech77

Now this is engineering.
Christ, imagine Bertie and the boys trying to put together something like this.

peasant

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Imagine being able to jump on a train in Dublin and get off in Paris. Now that would be cool.:cool:

Imagine getting on a train in Letterkenny or Sligo and getting off in Galway Limerick or Cork ...


..how cool would that be

Fratton Fred

peasant wrote: »

Imagine getting on a train in Letterkenny or Sligo and getting off in Galway Limerick or Cork ...


..how cool would that be

aaahh, now your just being silly:D

blah

iguana wrote: »

Pfft! If you had read World War Z carefully You'd know that Ireland was one of the safe zones in the war. They evacuated the pope to here ffs.

Just looking that up on wikipedia. Is it any good? (waaaayy off topic, Bridge->after hours->zombies)

Mweelrea

MoominPapa wrote: »

Could we not just dig a tunnel under Britain and come up in France?

much better idea!
i like the fact that there's a sea between us
a bridge would only give us trouble.....

Fratton Fred

Mweelrea wrote: »

much better idea!
i like the fact that there's a sea between us
a bridge would only give us trouble.....

Why? I would have thought the Welsh would be more worried, in case the Irish came kidnapping slaves again:p

Mweelrea

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Why? I would have thought the Welsh would be more worried, in case the Irish came kidnapping slaves again:p

ah i was thinking more along the lines of immigration and crime but ya the welsh should be worried we might be feeling nostalgic about the old days and go and take a few more!

Latchy

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

Jeez....build a bridge, and get over it mate :D

LOL some people cant leave the past behind,
and hate progress of any any kind ,

words by me

Mr. Incognito

Surely Irish Ferries would send one of their imported slave labourers to suicide bomb any bridge construction effort?

Wacker

Blah, it is one of the best books I've ever read. Seriously. Don't read it though; read the Zombie Survival Guide first, as it is important to understand the physiology and behaviour of the zombies if you're to properly appreciate World War Z. You'll find yourself spending a lot of time thinking about what you'd do in the instance of a zombie outbreak.

colliegG

Wacker wrote: »

Blah, it is one of the best books I've ever read. Seriously. Don't read it though; read the Zombie Survival Guide first, as it is important to understand the physiology and behaviour of the zombies if you're to properly appreciate World War Z. You'll find yourself spending a lot of time thinking about what you'd do in the instance of a zombie outbreak.

I've been looking for the Zombie Survival Guide since I read the other one but I can't find it. Where'd you get yours Wacker?

Thought World War Z was great. I think it's for sale in the Easons on Nassau Street if anyone's wondering.

speaktofrank

Nice idea in theory.
Bridge would be a little dodgy though what with rising sea levels, not to mention adverse weather conditions.
Also their photos seem a little unrealistic, the train if it did go to Paris would not go down the Champs Elysees as pictured but would stop at Paris Nord where is the main Eurostar station.

Wacker

colliegG wrote: »

I've been looking for the Zombie Survival Guide since I read the other one but I can't find it. Where'd you get yours Wacker?

Thought World War Z was great. I think it's for sale in the Easons on Nassau Street if anyone's wondering.

I got it in that large bookstore on Dawson Street, the name escapes me.

Trains from Galway to Paris won't happen, the rails are different gagues, unless you swap bogies at Dublin or Holyhead.

WoollyRedHat

While the hell does Wexford get everything? They already got the ferry, so if you want to get one you have to go all the way down to Roslare. Now we're going to have to go down there for this train as well. Just put it in bloodly Dublin! It's practically half-way on the coast instead of at the bottom like Wexford.

Anyway, I think we should just drag our Ireland over to Britain already, they'd be delighted to do it, so the old debate of Northern Ireland belonging to Ireland geographically will no longer exist! That and we would save a lot of travel costs!

sdanseo

This is fake or very badly thought out - they suggest a directional urban sprawl southwards from Dublin. This is not physically possible because of the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. They obviously haven't done their homework. Their ideal for a linear city as opposed to the typical nucleus layout is interesting but way too Americanised and untraditional for my liking.

In any event, a tunnel would be better on many levels, weather being the most important. That cheesy artist's impression looks like it could be swamped by the wake of a RIB let alone a medium-sized wave.

EDIT: Further proof that this is a spoof: The bridge is curved. What a ridiculous idea given the cost per klilometre of building such a thing, surely?! Not to mention the massive criss-cross of what i can only presume will be reclaimed land? What and where is the need for it?

Stupidest thing I've seen in a while.

spadder

They could perfect their engineering skills by putting a proper roof on our other technological masterpiece “the national aquatic centre”.

WoollyRedHat

More like the national crapatic centre tbh.

speaktofrank

sdonn_1 wrote: »

This is fake or very badly thought out - they suggest a directional urban sprawl southwards from Dublin. This is not physically possible because of the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. They obviously haven't done their homework. Their ideal for a linear city as opposed to the typical nucleus layout is interesting but way too Americanised and untraditional for my liking.

In any event, a tunnel would be better on many levels, weather being the most important. That cheesy artist's impression looks like it could be swamped by the wake of a RIB let alone a medium-sized wave.

EDIT: Further proof that this is a spoof: The bridge is curved. What a ridiculous idea given the cost per klilometre of building such a thing, surely?! Not to mention the massive criss-cross of what i can only presume will be reclaimed land? What and where is the need for it?

Stupidest thing I've seen in a while.

Which I said two hours before you,

Statso

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

While the hell does Wexford get everything? They already got the ferry, so if you want to get one you have to go all the way down to Roslare. Now we're going to have to go down there for this train as well. Just put it in bloodly Dublin! It's practically half-way on the coast instead of at the bottom like Wexford.

Anyway, I think we should just drag our Ireland over to Britain already, they'd be delighted to do it, so the old debate of Northern Ireland belonging to Ireland geographically will no longer exist! That and we would save a lot of travel costs!

Because Wexford people > you

colliegG

colliegG wrote: »

I've been looking for the Zombie Survival Guide since I read the other one but I can't find it. Where'd you get yours Wacker?

Thought World War Z was great. I think it's for sale in the Easons on Nassau Street if anyone's wondering.

Just to let you know, I bought both of these today in chapters in Parnell St.

Zombie Survival guide = €13
WWZ = €11.99

Gonna get stuck into them tonight.

WoollyRedHat

Statso wrote: »

Because Wexford people > you

Obviously. There's over 50,000 Wexford people and only one me.

tolosenc

Well, if we built the tunnel it would just be the Port Tunnel times a thousand, the trains wouldn't fit in, it'd leak, be over budget and late. Bad idea, almost as bad an idea as a bridge. Would be cooll if it worked though.

Tunnel to Newfoundland while we're at it, yeah?!

RonMexico

I bet Mary McAleese would crawl over the bodies of dead babies to open that bridge.

CantGetNoSleep

ScumLord wrote: »

I would have thought the Irish sea would be too rough for anything like this. It would be great if it can be done and as long as the Tans are building it.

Could the Polish not do it on our behalf?

DonJose

Irish + Engineering = Disater

LOL our government couldnt even afford to build a 385 metre long bridge :rolleyes:

phasers

get the ferry


basically the same thing, just on water

Mint Sauce

peasant wrote: »

Imagine getting on a train in Letterkenny or Sligo and getting off in Galway Limerick or Cork ...


..how cool would that be

dont run before you can walk, just getting on a train in letterkeny to go any where would be nice

Mint Sauce

obl wrote: »

Well, if we built the tunnel it would just be the Port Tunnel times a thousand, the trains wouldn't fit in, it'd leak, be over budget and late. Bad idea, almost as bad an idea as a bridge. Would be cooll if it worked though.

Tunnel to Newfoundland while we're at it, yeah?!

plus dont forget the different rail guage in the UK,

Jimbo

Deleted User wrote: »

Just to let you know, I bought both of these today in chapters in Parnell St.

Zombie Survival guide = €13
WWZ = €11.99

Gonna get stuck into them tonight.

Lol. You musta got some funny looks...

WoollyRedHat

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Could the Polish not do it on our behalf?

A few centuries ago, the English would have been asking the same question of us.

sdanseo

speaktofrank wrote: »

Which I said two hours before you,

I don't see a post at ~1725hrs remotely like mine, and it's besides the point tbh. You must forgive me for not sorting through five pages of AH material with a fine tooth comb.

Grow up.

Jimbo

Cant the UK change their rail gauges to suit? Thats the least they could do if we were to grace them with our presence.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Just to let you know, I bought both of these today in chapters in Parnell St.

Zombie Survival guide = €13
WWZ = €11.99

Gonna get stuck into them tonight.

Now all you need is this and this and you're sorted.

John R

irish-stew wrote: »

dont run before you can walk, just getting on a train in letterkeny to go any where would be nice

So nice that when there were trains in Letterkenny people stopped using them.