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Finland and Estonia have signed an agreement to build a 92-kilometer (57 miles) rail tunnel under the Baltic Sea, between their capitals......In addition, a 224 -kilometer per hour (140 mph) rail line is envisioned which would connect Berlin, Warsaw, Tallinn, and Helsinki. Currently, it takes 12 hours to drive a car between Berlin and Warsaw.
The building of ambitious bridges or tunnels exercises our imagination, develops talents and extends technologies. As far as I'm concerned, there's not enough of it. Imagine how fine and easy it would be to construct a bridge or lay a tunnel from the British mainland to Northern Ireland: and, to extend it to North America! We could have done it years ago. Anyway, good luck to the Estonians &c!
T Imagine how fine and easy it would be to construct a bridge or lay a tunnel from the British mainland to Northern Ireland: and, to extend it to North America! We could have done it years ago.
Who's gonna pay the bill for the construction and maintenance of those gigantic structures?
Do you really want the whole world to go bankrupt?
I fancy that we could have a topic dedicated to whether we should have a tunnel laid or bridge built across the herring pond. For I'm convinced that the there'd by no discernible end to investments in or financing of an Atlantic crossing. The thought of forthcoming revenues would cover that. And let us bear in-mind that where there's a will, there's a way
Anyone considering building bridges, undersea tunnels, or coastal highways these days, needs to take into account sea level rise. So far, even in regions where there have been studies, projections, and even mitigation strategies in place, government authorities and engineers aren't including that in their planning.
Finland and Estonia have signed an agreement to build a 92-kilometer (57 miles) rail tunnel under the Baltic Sea, between their capitals.....
So twice as long as the Eurotunnel (Chunnel) and over three times as deep. Estonia is 1.3 million people in the entire country. All to reduce a 2 hour boat ride to a 40 minute train ride.
At the peak of construction 15,000 people were employed on the Eurotunnel.
I think they will be doing studies on this 100 years from now.
We should have "lighter than air" or "electric airplane" projects for these kind of transportation issues in the 50 mile range.
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