There's A Surprise. The BorisTunnel Is Dead
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"Boris Johnson has shelved his dream for a bridge or tunnel connecting Northern Ireland with Scotland, after a review concluded it would be too technically challenging and expensive."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/20/pms-ir...
A moment thought is all it should have taken. The shorter shallower channel tunnel connecting a market of 60M with a market of 300M was touch and go. Why anybody even looked at a far more techincally difficult tunnel connecting a market of 4M? with £60 was feasible I do not know.
If it had actually been serious the place to spend money, immediately, was on upgrading the A77 and A75.
An Irish tunnel whe they can't even build HS2 to Leeds.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/20/pms-ir...
A moment thought is all it should have taken. The shorter shallower channel tunnel connecting a market of 60M with a market of 300M was touch and go. Why anybody even looked at a far more techincally difficult tunnel connecting a market of 4M? with £60 was feasible I do not know.
If it had actually been serious the place to spend money, immediately, was on upgrading the A77 and A75.
An Irish tunnel whe they can't even build HS2 to Leeds.
swamp said:
The fact that this (and the estuary airport) even got as far as they did, demonstrates the lack of people at the top of Government with a technical/scientific background.
Boris will come up with a moon base next.
About bloody time. I was expecting cities on the moon and hover cars by the year 2000. Boris will come up with a moon base next.
anonymous said:
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It’s worse than that, multiple media sources ran with it and treated it as a serious proposition. As did some parties in NI. As did some engineering companies quick to profiteer while they could (no idea if they did). When everyone knew it was a nonsense proposal.Meanwhile there are real areas where the government could improve transport infrastructure between GB and NI such as road and rail links to ports for one example, but they don’t make for dead cat headlines. Also them being achievable makes it harder to explain why you’re not funding them.
Cynic, moi?
ETA, I think that moonshot publicity stunts get in the way of potential real solutions or improvements.
Edited by roger.mellie on Sunday 21st November 21:38
Fundoreen said:
Just means he will go on to the next eternal Boris memorial project.
100ft statue of the queen in trafalger sq anyone? He is the sort of person that thinks she will be impressed.
Given the current direction he’s trying to lead the media and his need for a big new moonshot I’m expecting a proposal for a Trump style wall in the English Channel complete with laser beams for any dinghies trying to cross its gate without the correct permissions.100ft statue of the queen in trafalger sq anyone? He is the sort of person that thinks she will be impressed.
ETA, how did I miss the chance to say “sharks with frickin laser beams!”
Edited by roger.mellie on Monday 22 November 00:25
No surprise, anyone with half a brain cell could see it wasnt economically viable. At least it has been canned at the start rather than wastinf no doubt BILLIONS on the HS2 Leeds leg only to kill it years into the project, and a few IT projects also down the pan after eye watering sums spent.
46and2 said:
A proper dual carriageway/motorway from Cairnryan/Stranraer (with a complete Dumfries bypass) to the M6 would be a sensible project. It would also allow increased ferry traffic, no need for a bridge.
Yip, and similar projects could be carried out on the NI side on improving transport links to and from Larne or even Belfast port. But that’s much too sensible and boring to grab any headlines.Edited by 46and2 on Monday 22 November 09:28
How can Boris even think we have the money for such b
ks is beyond me. He needed some donor to stump up 15k to wallpaper his fking bedroom, ffs, how much does he think it would cost to actually "build" something, not just stick paper over something.
He has really shown himself to be utterly fking deluded.
ks is beyond me. He needed some donor to stump up 15k to wallpaper his fking bedroom, ffs, how much does he think it would cost to actually "build" something, not just stick paper over something.He has really shown himself to be utterly f
king deluded.Has the Hammersmith Bridge been fixed yet?
As I have mentioned before I have been on a 20km(?) bridge over the sea that connects Penang to mainland Malaysia that took two years to build.
UK was never going to have the will, money, or competence to get a bridge to Ireland off the ground.
Would have been £Ms wasted.
Worth mentioning that the website for Boris’ Garden Bridge cost £160,000….for a website. £160,000.
As I have mentioned before I have been on a 20km(?) bridge over the sea that connects Penang to mainland Malaysia that took two years to build.
UK was never going to have the will, money, or competence to get a bridge to Ireland off the ground.
Would have been £Ms wasted.
Worth mentioning that the website for Boris’ Garden Bridge cost £160,000….for a website. £160,000.
jdw100 said:
Has the Hammersmith Bridge been fixed yet?
As I have mentioned before I have been on a 20km(?) bridge over the sea that connects Penang to mainland Malaysia that took two years to build.
UK was never going to have the will, money, or competence to get a bridge to Ireland off the ground.
Would have been £Ms wasted.
Worth mentioning that the website for Boris’ Garden Bridge cost £160,000….for a website. £160,000.
Was the website delivered by a genius American entrepreneur,As I have mentioned before I have been on a 20km(?) bridge over the sea that connects Penang to mainland Malaysia that took two years to build.
UK was never going to have the will, money, or competence to get a bridge to Ireland off the ground.
Would have been £Ms wasted.
Worth mentioning that the website for Boris’ Garden Bridge cost £160,000….for a website. £160,000.
called Jennifer Arcuri ?
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