I do hope you weren't talking about my comment. I would not like to think I was contributing to this perceived decline in HN standards. I wrote what I did beca

I do hope you weren't talking about my comment. I would not like to think I was contributing to this perceived decline in HN standards. I wrote what I did because I took a kind of offence at the assumptions baked into the article. I felt large parts of it were concerned with a kind of condescending, "tut-tut" economic opinion - look at what these crazy chinese are wasting their money on! And this opinion seemed to be rooted in what I consider to be a profoundly flawed economic theory, which I wanted to raise questions about. I'm sorry I derailed the discussion about this interesting project, though. I've been through the Seikan tunnel a number of times and it's an absolute wonder of engineering (do you know there are 2 stations inside?). But I couldn't let the article's smug little swipes at those wacky Chinamen go unchallenged. Perhaps, for the good of the community, I (and everyone else) should have.