Bridge over the Irish Sea

[bgmnts]

I'm assuming the ferry operators are well behind this abortion of an idea.

[Fambo Number Mive]

This utter fucking bullshit idea being rolled out again.

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

Is this just something someone has to propose in February now?

February 2022: Cable car from Scotland to Northern Ireland. £20m spent on consultants to look into.
February 2023: Star Trek style transporter at both ends, with £1bn given to a firm recommended by a Tory MP to look into this.

[Ambient Sheep]

Great takedown of why this is such a stupid, impractical idea here (and most of the rest of the thread):

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/%E2%80%98-rail-bosses-plan-to-build-northern-ireland-to-scotland-tunnel%E2%80%99.214179/#post-4996378

It's just Boris trying to make the Unionists feel better and trying to keep Scotland aboard.

Any such crossing would be better going Holyhead to Dublin, as discussed last year in this thread. :)

[Fambo Number Mive]

Boris Johnson's plan to build three tunnels under the Irish Sea connecting in an "underground roundabout" beneath the Isle of Man has been described as "batsh*t" by Johnson's senior aides

Getting more and more desperate with his distractions from his COVID performance. Either that or he's planning to build a whole world under the Irish Sea.

[jamiefairlie]

Great takedown of why this is such a stupid, impractical idea here (and most of the rest of the thread):

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/%E2%80%98-rail-bosses-plan-to-build-northern-ireland-to-scotland-tunnel%E2%80%99.214179/#post-4996378

It's just Boris trying to make the Unionists feel better and trying to keep Scotland aboard.

Any such crossing would be better going Holyhead to Dublin, as discussed last year in this thread. :)

It doesn't make any sense as a unionist ploy anyway. We have an actual land connection with England and that's not helping any so why would a tunnel help? Just a zany distraction I guess.

[dissolute ocelot]

Getting more and more desperate with his distractions from his COVID performance. Either that or he's planning to build a whole world under the Irish Sea.

Maybe he's hoping to find Thomas The Tank Engine's homeland of Sodor. Frankly, who knows?

Can't Elon Musk do a tunnel? Surely all nations could join up to shout pedo at him and forget our differences.

[Ambient Sheep]

BUMP.  Oh, what a surprise!

BBC News - Northern Ireland to Scotland bridge plans scrapped

Plans to build a bridge or tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland have been ruled out due to forecasted costs and engineering challenges.

A study examining if such a project was possible is expected to advise against proceeding with any proposals when it is released next week.

The BBC understands the government will agree with the report's recommendation.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been a vocal supporter of a fixed link between Britain and Northern Ireland.

The Telegraph first reported that transport expert Sir Peter Hendy, who was asked by the government to examine connections between the different parts of the UK, had concluded the project was not currently viable.

A government source said Sir Peter had examined the costs of a fixed link to Northern Ireland and found "it would be technically very challenging at the moment".

"That's not to say it won't become viable at some point in the future, but at the moment it would be very, very difficult and expensive," the source told the paper.

The Department for Transport told the BBC: "We don't comment on speculation. The Union Connectivity Review will be published shortly."

[Johnny Foreigner]

Denmark has cross-island bridges that connect two potato fields. They are useless, but it is the thought that counts.

The moral to take home is: be more like Denmark.

[bgmnts]

Britannia rules the waves.

[Jittlebags]

Even the Faroe Isles has an undersea roundabout. Boris couldn't even oversee an undersea pedestrian crossing.

[Ambient Sheep]

Denmark has cross-island bridges that connect two potato fields. They are useless, but it is the thought that counts.

They probably didn't have a 30-mile-long 1000ft deep trench full of munitions and nuclear waste between them, though.


But generally speaking...

The moral to take home is: be more like Denmark.

...I quite agree.