NI to Scotland tunnel?

JasonStatham

[URL] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/rail-bosses-revive-plan-to-build-tunnel-from-scotland-to-northern-ireland [/URL]

Will this have any implications for Brexit? Is it even possible. I thought there was a load of WW2 ordinance down there.

I thought you were a pretty good swimmer anyway?

jmlad2020

Bring it on I say. UK government foots the bill and it benefits our Island.

NIMAN

Will never happen.

suicide_circus

This has reptilian fingerprints all over it

as was said about the bridge,about as much econmic sense as building a luas in dingle



The UK might not even exist,by time it gets built....with the scots spoiling for independance

osarusan

Followed by Scottish independence and Irish reunification?

Will never happen.

Atlantic Dawn

What would the demand be? The ferries and cargo shops are managing fine with the current demand.

Panthro

Anything less than hypersonic highway I'm not interested.
I'm not sure what it is but its what I want.
Tunnel.
So 90s man.

HBC08

Will never happen of course but it costs nothing for Boris to throw a bone to the unionists.

bilbot79

Could help Unionist perception of superiority of esteem. No bad thing.

Donald Trump

Build a big wall across the sea and let them walk across the top.

I love walls

Five Eighth

Donald Trump wrote: »

Build a big wall across the sea and let them walk across the top.

I love walls

Could they build it so that they could jump the pillars?

Didn't Boris de pfeffel spend loads of taxpayers dosh on some kind of garden bridge in London that was never built?

retalivity

It'll never happen, but this bit speaks volumes

A new rail connection between Carlisle and Stranraer would be needed and the width of railway track in Ireland may need to be altered, the proposal said.

"You lads, change your entire infrastructure because we may or may not look to connect with it. Sometime. In the future. Maybe."

Sparko

Probably a bunch of Tory donors who can charge a fortune in consulting fees.

It’ll happen one day.

If they start planning and surveying now it could take 20 years before any actual work takes place, but it will happen.

retalivity

retalivity wrote: »

It'll never happen, but this bit speaks volumes



"You lads, change your entire infrastructure because we may or may not look to connect with it. Sometime. In the future. Maybe."

Even if that got sorted out the DUP will insist on imperial and SF will want metric measurements

Donald Trump

Aegir wrote: »

It’ll happen one day.

If they start planning and surveying now it could take 20 years before any actual work takes place, but it will happen.

In 20 years they'll possibly have autonomous drones that can fly 24/7 in almost all weather.

Unless they want to put some kind of hyperloop in!




Although if it takes 20 years to get it off the ground, independent Scotland might not bother building it . They might be more interested in putting their own one in to the continent

astrofool

We should let him build it, and then when it's a couple of months to completion, hold the unification referendum, free billion dollar fast link to an independent Scotland.

Mad_maxx

ive heard worse ideas

Tyrone212

Germany and Denmark are doing something similar. It is only 11 miles and won't be finished until 2029. This would be over 20 miles and some in the British media are presenting it as a way to bypass the protocol. I mean how thick are they? If they started it tomorrow it would probably be 10 years minimum(I'm being overly optimistic)at the very least to complete.

RandomViewer

BAM have the tender in , they are saying they'll have it built third week of January 2122 unless there's extras

Darc19

April fools Day has started early this year.

Usual Boris bluster and some eejits in Scotland and NI will actually believe it.

Reality will set in at some point

RandomViewer

Tyrone212 wrote: »

Germany and Denmark are doing something similar. It is only 11 miles and won't be finished until 2029. This would be over 20 miles and some in the British media are presenting it as a way to bypass the protocol. I mean how thick are they? If they started it tomorrow it would probably be 10 years minimum(I'm being overly optimistic)at the very least to complete.

Channel tunnell is 50k and they built that in 5 years in the 1980s

Harry Palmr

A tunnel between an island of 7 million and a country of 5.5 million costing 50 billion somethings. Just take a ferry.

John Doe1

It will be a grand piece of infrastructure for the Celtic Union to inherit.:P

dd973

This is claptrap, like Boris Johnson's Thames Garden Bridge, N.G.H, Not Going to Happen.

McMurphy

RandomViewer wrote: »

BAM have the tender in , they are saying they'll have it built third week of January 2122 unless there's extras

Brilliant.

Donald Trump

dd973 wrote: »

This is claptrap, like Boris Johnson's Thames Garden Bridge, N.G.H, Not Going to Happen.

The eejit just wants to throw out random things in the hope that eventually one of them would be done in 100 years and he can somehow be given credit for being some kind of visionary

This isn’t Boris saying this, it’s the rail planners.

Fossil fuels are only going to get more and more expensive and development of alternative powered planes and ships seems to be somewhat lacking at the moment.

Gatling

Oddly enough it could make sense ,

I'm surprised the idea of tunnel to Scotland and a second from Dublin to hollyhead ,to allow freight and people to travel from here to Europe and vice versa via the channel tunnel ,
Yes it would be an expensive project but one which could be beneficial in the long run .