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I'm guessing this has been done, but I just read that France and Eurotunnel officials are taking it seriously, so thought it was a good time to bring it up here.
Anyway, as crazy as it sounds, I think it's a great idea... as long as they create a parallel, separated lane for bicycles. Honestly, that would be an absolute dream.
Do you think that's a possibility?
No
Also no.
the customs post mid way after brexit would be a real pain
It’s a lovely idea.
Its far from impossible, it would likely be ‘only’ the 8th longest bridge in the world.
They might have to build a cycle lane, I can’t imagine the ferries would stay in business long.
Is it going to connect with the Emirates cable car?
Brilliant idea, build 5.
Nope.
It’s a dead cat.
Rachel
the customs post mid way after brexit would be a real pain
Not a problem. They can use the 'technology based solution' that they will have in place for the Irish border.
Mount it on the gantries next to the lasers that vaporise immigrants.
Cycling across a dedicated path to mainland Europe is the stuff of dreams.
Best description I heard from an engineer, "it would be cheaper to move France closer"
It's just another case of Boris saying something ridiculous/stupid, to distract from the shit job he's doing.
Just build a wall and make them pay for it.
could reclaim doggerland
could reclaim doggerland
could get rid of a lot of dickheads also.
It's about Boris and his obsession with grandiose projects for us to remember him by after he has gone.
Garden bridge? That airport in the middle of nowhere, perhaps even Brexit.
Perhaps we could ask Boris to hop on and then hop off it.
Its one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, so it would either have to be high enough that everything could pass underneath (which would be very high), or if it was somekind of swing bridge it would be open 23.5 hours a day,making it unusable.
I doubt the tolls required would ever pay for construction
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FIFY.
Honestly, you Brexiters... thought you'd be all over this one.. You seriously believed BloHard when he prattled on about saving £350m every 20mins... it was on Bus n all..
Shirley you've not become all "i don't believe a word he says" now have you??
Can I interest anyone in investing in my monorail scheme?
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">Purely on the technical aspect, it can be done. The Chinese opened the worlds largest Ocean Span Bridge back in 2011..</span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"> </span>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #454545;">China opened the world's longest bridge over water on Thursday. The Jiaozhou Bay bridge is 26.4 miles long, according to Guinness World Records. It links China's eastern port city of Qingdao to Huangdao island.30 Jun 2011</p>
You Brexiters want o work hand in Hand with China, so get them to build it.. because if we had a go it'd be the same farce as HS2 (that only the BloHards want)
Private Eye nailed it
Garden Bridge: 22m long, cost to public £46million, metres built: 0
Channel Bridge: 22000m long...
Why the hell not?
Well it's only being reported in the Mail and the Telegraph as a 'boost'.
The note from Jacques Gounon states: 'The idea of a second fixed link is something that we regularly consider in our long-term plans and we would be delighted to engage with your officials to explore the possibility further,' according to the report.
Mr Gounon added: 'We are very interested in this possibility, albeit perhaps a little early as today we only use around 54 per cent of total Tunnel capacity.'
And then if you read a bit further, Eurotunnel has the rights to any further crossing until 2086. So translated: "We would be delighted to take money off you."
Then immigints will come over innit?
it’s a great idea
i bet nobody can remember anything else that was discussed or announced that day. So it’s been pretty brilliant in that respect.
Garden Bridge: 22m long, money in pockets of Boris's chums £46million, metres built: 0
FTFY
It's a stupid idea dreamt up by a stupid politician,
Wouldn't want to use the cycle lane with deep section rims!
Great idea the £350m we will save per week from those EU bullies will pay for it.
The bridge from Scotland to Ireland is more likely to get built.
A bridge? To France?
Run that by me again.....
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Why not I'd say, while they are at it, they should stick in a bridge between Scotland and Ireland. Connecting up countries is a good idea.
Yes from me, Good idea.
Brexit means Brexit. We just voted to make travelling to/from the continent harder, so why the fork would we build a bridge to make it easier? We don't need to trade with Europe either so won't need it for freight traffic.
Surely what we actually need is a bridge across the Atlantic (and to China obviously).
i can’t believe that no-one else had this brilliant idea before me....
Well I wouldn’t trust anything anyone from Eurotunnel says, of course they want to “engage” ie find out what’s being discussed so they can do their upmost to prevent / destroy competition .. I have had the dubious pleasire of meeting various senior people over the past 20 years, they are and always have been bent on creating a near monopoly. As for tye tunnel operating at “below capacity” perhaps they can explain the 3 hour delay we had getting through on Saturday. Of course it operates below full capacity at 3am on a midweek night in January.
@ymian no we didn’t vote to make travel harder. We are outside Shengen and we show our passports everytime we travel to France and complete API info too. Eurotunnel has no “EU specific” passport lines.
It might not be physically harder but I bet it will cost me more in travel insurance 🙄
It'll be a right laugh. It'll be priced up @ X billion £'s/Euros but actually come out at 3X that & be 2 years late. (but some clever **** would make a fortune out of the whole deal)
& more to the point, why? Think of how many jobs would be lost on the ferries for a start!
No; unless we could bury Johnson and all the other swivel-eyed loons from all parties in the foundations.
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we didn't vote to make travel harder
what did you vote for?
🦄, obvs
Honestly, you Brexiters… thought you’d be all over this one.. You seriously believed BloHard when he prattled on about saving £350m every 20mins… it was on Bus n all..Shirley you’ve not become all “i don’t believe a word he says” now have you??
You seem to consistently view everyone who supported the UK leaving the EU as being all exactly of one mind on the subject, all anti-immigrant, blah blah blah.
I think you’ll find, if you were to actually speak to a good cross-section there would be a wide variety of reasons, from the rabidly anti-anyone even remotely foreign being allowed to have easy entry to the UK, to those just fed up of the continued federalist ambitions of a Brussels/Strasbourg elite that nobody had ever voted for.
I’m the latter, I voted for the UK being part of the EEC, an economic community across Europe to enable trade to be carried out with minimal interference, not for a political elite to take decision making and financial controls away from individual countries - one size does not fit all across such a wide variety of nations, look at the issues with Greece in the Euro, for example.
AFAIK, even the USA doesn’t work like that, every state imposes it’s own taxes and looks after its own budgeting, while still using a common currency.
As it happens, I never got around to voting to leave, I got home late after a long working day, and couldn’t be arsed, but I’m sympathetic towards certain reasons for leaving, immigration isn’t one of them.
I actually rather like the idea of a bridge across the Channel, I love some of the really long bridges built in China, Scandinavia, America, and the thought of being able to drive, or even cycle across to the continent is really exciting: the big problem is an engineering one, with the Channel being such a busy shipping route, and knowing how initial budgets for such projects get inflated out of all recognition!
HS2, GWR electrification, the Stonehenge Tunnel, (where the money spent on designing various options could have actually paid for the ****ing thing by now!!).
I’m the latter, I voted for the UK being part of the EEC, an economic community across Europe to enable trade to be carried out with minimal interference
Soft Brexit then? (serious question)
FWIW I can see that point of view - the EU is a long long way from perfect, but personally I think the benefits are worth sticking with it. It may be that the EU diverges from what we want - but without us, it could end up diverging even more which could have negatives for the whole continent.
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I have formed the opinion based on conversations and all the media posted on the subject. Whilst not a a SME I am more than well informed about the Who voted for, the Why, and the subsequent issues Brexieters have placed the UK in. Quite honestly, don't treat me like i'm ill informed.. I'll leave that to the MrMGoo's of this world who voted based on BloHard and F'rage and their own Political Ideologies.
And Brexiters formed an orderly queue behind them.
So, back to the subject..
When's it being built. Proper EU integration, no borders, free movement, free integrated trade agreements, seems like a bridge or 5 would fit the requirement.
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on a big list of 'things the UK should be spending money on' another channel crossing isn't anywhere near the first page on the list