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  • Nairn0

    re: Boris Bridge to Ireland.

    I'm doing some long-process jobs on a Saturday, so am idling my time otherwise on stupid thoughts.

    I think it'd be better to make a connection - be it bridge or tunnel, or both - between Holyhead and Dublin.

    It's a lot longer, but the lie of the land is much simpler. The distance is about 75 or so miles versus the 30 odd miles it would require under the current proposition.

    It's only 2 times the longest tunnel ever dug, or 3 times longer than the chunnel. Easy, right?

    A shame we're not in the EU any more - would make a lot more sense that way,

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    • Seems like a couple of extra-large trebuchets on each side would be easier.robotron3k
    • I will never - ever - disavow the potential use of trebuchets.
      +1 robo      Nairn
    • dublin -> holyhead at least there's a chance one of them will still be britian by the time it's built.kingsteven
    • i can do belfast to glasgow in 2 hours from my house atm (45 min flight) and pick up viz in the airport on the way...kingsteven
    • fuck driving it... 6 hours and via the twinned shitholes of larne and stranraer! it takes less time to get to corkkingsteven
    • Went on the ferry last trip over, got in the truckers lounge, the food was decent, made the crossing a bit less brutal. Getting back from Larne is grim tho.PhanLo
    • I suppose the benefit of a physical link is less about driving cars through than it is rail passengers and freight. The Boris bridge would bairly dent eitherNairn
    • bairly?Nairn
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