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Bridge, yes. Tunnel, no. It’s very feasible and practical from a civil-engineering perspective, but the economic value of a road connection between NI and Scot

Bridge, yes. Tunnel, no. It’s very feasible and practical from a civil-engineering perspective, but the economic value of a road connection between NI and Scotland has not been demonstrated to outweigh the economic cost of its construction.

Chris2048 6y ago
Infact: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/rail-bosses-revive-plan-to-build-tunnel-from-scotland-to-northern-ireland https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/rail-bosses-...
- arethuza 6y ago
  Even more fun: the relevant area of sea has had one million tons of explosives dumped there as well as chemical weapons and even some radioactive waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke
rusk 6y ago
What’s feesible? The tunnel or the bridge? I’d heard the tunnel wasn’t possible due to the particular geography of the channel. But a bridge? Now that I’d be interesting I seeing. There used to be a giants causeway across there in mythical times ...
- onei 6y ago
  The bridge is unfeasible because the channel is around 200m deep in places which makes it crazy expensive. I also found a couple of references to nuclear waste in the trench, but that might have been for another site.
  - rusk 6y ago
    Both of which I was aware of but I heard that some kind of suspension design would work. The tunnel is infeasible because there’s a very deep trench there, and that as you mentioned is filled with all sorts of nasty stuff.
    - anonymousDan 6y ago
      I believe the latest proposal would swerve to avoid the trench.
  - DenisM 6y ago
    Floating bridge is a thing tho https://www.wired.com/2016/04/takes-keep-7700-foot-floating-bridge-doom/#:~:text=Washington's%20love%20of%20floating%20bridges,from%20an%20engineering%20perspective%2C%20crap https://www.wired.com/2016/04/takes-keep-7700-foot-floating-....

Chris2048 6y ago

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

arethuza 6y ago
Even more fun: the relevant area of sea has had one million tons of explosives dumped there as well as chemical weapons and even some radioactive waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke

rusk 6y ago

What’s feesible? The tunnel or the bridge? I’d heard the tunnel wasn’t possible due to the particular geography of the channel. But a bridge? Now that I’d be interesting I seeing. There used to be a giants causeway across there in mythical times ...

onei 6y ago
The bridge is unfeasible because the channel is around 200m deep in places which makes it crazy expensive. I also found a couple of references to nuclear waste in the trench, but that might have been for another site.
- rusk 6y ago
  Both of which I was aware of but I heard that some kind of suspension design would work. The tunnel is infeasible because there’s a very deep trench there, and that as you mentioned is filled with all sorts of nasty stuff.
  - anonymousDan 6y ago
    I believe the latest proposal would swerve to avoid the trench.
- DenisM 6y ago
  Floating bridge is a thing tho https://www.wired.com/2016/04/takes-keep-7700-foot-floating-bridge-doom/#:~:text=Washington's%20love%20of%20floating%20bridges,from%20an%20engineering%20perspective%2C%20crap https://www.wired.com/2016/04/takes-keep-7700-foot-floating-....