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Is it time to build a tunnel between Ireland and Britain.

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  • #52
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Outkast_IRE wrote: »
    Why in gods name would this lead to a tourism asylum seeker boom , :

    fixed your post.... everyone legal would fly... only illegal imigrants would use the tunnel while locked in the back of lorries.


  • #53
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,712 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Outkast_IRE wrote: »
    Why in gods name would this lead to a tourism boom , if you were coming from mainland europe you could fly in a fraction of the time :rolleyes:

    Flying won't always be as cheap as it is today. We take cheap flights for granted but we are only one crisis away from air transport becoming prohibitavely expensive, such as Iran blocking the Straits of Hormuz.

    It is a vital piece of infrastructure for the future. As an island we would be cut off in the event of a re eruption of the Icelandic volcano and stormy seas.

    This would not just be a major issue for tourism but for everything from getting exports abroad, to Irish business perople attending meetings, to transplant patients being able to travel to England for operations.

    In the long term it would prove to be a vital piece of strategic infrastructure.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #54
    jc84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭jc84


    seems pointless, ireland could never afford it and britain won't fund it, why would they want a tunnel to ireland? it would be used more for the irish getting to britain than the other way around


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
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    southcentralts wrote: »
    We are in a hole right now and you want to start digging?

    Dig up!!


  • #56
    Outkast_IRE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,516 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    jc84 wrote: »
    seems pointless, ireland could never afford it and britain won't fund it, why would they want a tunnel to ireland? it would be used more for the irish getting to britain than the other way around
    britain could direct illegal migrants straight on to us :D


  • #57
    scdublin
    Registered Users Posts: 643 ✭✭✭scdublin


    Yes, if it was possible it would be amazing and I'd be all for it. Doubt it'll realistically happen for decades though.


  • #58
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    highly motivated

    Lulz.

    The most motivated i'd ever seen them was when piling into the van to go to the deli for a breakfast roll.


  • #59
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    LLU wrote: »
    Well I think the first thing we need to do here is employ a firm of consultants...

    prior to this, i suggest we set up a quango, and also a committee to oversee the quango members


  • #60
    RobbieTheRobber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,844 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    hytrogen wrote: »
    And the sun & stars orbit it, yes?

    Indeed they do in fact Ireland is the exact centre of the multiverse


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  • #61
    Ice87
    Registered Users Posts: 315 ✭✭Ice87


    This won't be brought in while anyone on this board is still alive.

    We don't have the demand, this will only be suggested when we increase our population by a couple of times.

    Would love for a Rail line to be built though.

    Bullet train to London in an hour.

    Maybe Merkel & Co will give us one for Christmas 2030 if we behave.


  • #62
    sink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    Red21 wrote: »
    A far more realistic option would be from Dingle to New York, 50 lanes, 25 each way, the thinking would be get all the europeans to drive through Ireland to get to the states and all the yanks to take our tunnel to get to europe.
    Lets say we charge 500 per car and each lane takes 5 cars per minute thats
    7,200 cars per lane per day-
    which is 3.6 milion per lane per day
    at 50 lanes thats 180 million the tunnel would bring in a day
    thats 65.7 billion for the tunnel for the year before you take in the revenue from the all the shops hotels etc the way.
    I know it sounds like a lot of hard work but think about it once its done and paid for we'd all be living like pigs in the fat house and never have to work a day again in our lives.

    I know you're joking but even if the distance was only 20km this would never be possible because of the mid Atlantic ridge. It is a divergent tectonic plate boundary and is one of the most volcanically active regions on earth with the Eurasian and North American plate pulling apart from each other at a rate of 2.5cm per year. \nerd


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