There is not a tectonic plate boundary there… drilling a permanent tunnel could actually work… at least, it wouldn’t be especially vulnerable to earthquake issues…
That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea, of course… 85km is a very long distance to travel through a tunnel. A train would make a lot more sense than trucks for cargo movement.
So… The western 42km will be train, the eastern 42km an 8 lane highway. In the center they gonna build puttrum plazza where you can change means of transportation.
Ah that sounds like what they were doing in stranger things and we got hold of the wrong end of the stick! It wasn’t nefarious it was just to give us a mall and new transport and shopping options.
Margaret Thatcher really wanted the Chunnel to be trucks only. It was impractical enough even they relented and accepted a train carrying cars. For why, look up pictures of the Chunnel Fire.
Huh… so…
There is not a tectonic plate boundary there… drilling a permanent tunnel could actually work… at least, it wouldn’t be especially vulnerable to earthquake issues…
That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea, of course… 85km is a very long distance to travel through a tunnel. A train would make a lot more sense than trucks for cargo movement.
Train? What are you, some kind of socialist?
So… The western 42km will be train, the eastern 42km an 8 lane highway. In the center they gonna build puttrum plazza where you can change means of transportation.
Would there also be a parking garage for all the trans Continental tourists?
Ah that sounds like what they were doing in stranger things and we got hold of the wrong end of the stick! It wasn’t nefarious it was just to give us a mall and new transport and shopping options.
You Americans are sooooo lucky/S
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Margaret Thatcher really wanted the Chunnel to be trucks only. It was impractical enough even they relented and accepted a train carrying cars. For why, look up pictures of the Chunnel Fire.
Yeah… how exactly do you ventilate 40km of tunnel under the ocean?
The pump to drive air through 25km of duct would be an impressive piece of engineering all by itself.
The duct would be a real piece of work. The pressure in the middle of that pipe would be kind of nuts.
Simply put the car in neutral and have the air pressure difference push the cars through.
Nah. They said same about crimea bridge and it worked fine it seems. Tectonic bs
Shame they cant build one from alaska to the mainland then, canada has control.