There is a brief item of discussion going on this morning....concerning Northern Ireland and England. The topic? The idea of building a underground tunnel between the two. The PM (Johnson) hyped up this idea again.
Reality of this?
You'd have to build a bridge-like device (about 1 km long) from Bangor (Northern Ireland) out to an island off the coast (Copeland Island), then run a tunnel from there over to the west coast of England (figure roughly 24 kilometers long).
Impossible? No. The technology has been around for forty-odd years, and proven by the tunnel to France.
Cost? That's really the impact area....it'd probably go into the tens of billions of Euro to complete. Would you ever even get your money back off this investment?
If you discussed the Chunnel costs per car (relative to today)? If you go at the cheapest point of the day (usually after midnight and before 6 AM)....it might go for around 31 Pounds per vehicle. Thats $43 US.
Odds of this discussion continuing on? In the midst of Covid economics....no.
Curiously, if you started to figure some ongoing relationship with the Republic of Ireland, and business expansion....the tunnel idea makes perfect sense.
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