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Boris Johnson's Scotland-Ireland Link: "A bridge or tunnel across the Irish Sea is feasible engineering but dubious economics"
UK PM Boris Johnson recently proposed a "link" between Britain and Northern Ireland. Most talk about a bridge and some about a tunnel. Either way, it is a project with a lot of challenges.
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Boris Johnson’s Scotland-Ireland crossing could have been Victorian era tunnel
It was first proposed to soothe the “sickly horrors of the short sea passage” and speed up journey times between the two great Victorian economic powerhouses of Glasgow and Belfast.
"It’s tunnels we need, not bridges"
I agree all the way.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/it-s-tunnels-we-need-not-bridges-1.4127454
Boris Johnson's bridge or two tunnels - could the UK be linked together?
Tunnel vision – An Irishman’s Diary on the long and colourful history of plans for a tunnel to link Ireland and Britain
Forget bridge... tunnel best way to link Northern Ireland and Great Britain, say experts
Proposed bridge between Northern Ireland and UK could be replaced by a TUNNEL
https://www.irishpost.com/news/proposed-bridge-northern-ireland-uk-replaced-tunnel-176716
Winging it is considered the weakest side of PM Boris Johnson. It is always given as an argument to support the claim that why he is not fit to be a successful PM.
Maybe so. Maybe he is not a detail person but somehow it is working in the case of the Great Britain - Norther Ireland tunnel case.
Since Boris Johnson floated the tunnel idea (half seriously?), suddenly people started talking about it and more recently it even made it into the agenda of the more serious entities like The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
'The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is preparing a case for the construction of tunnels under the Irish Sea, the Solent, the Humber estuary and the Severn estuary'
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/engineers-lobby-for-tunnel-building-bonanza
Tunnel between Northern Ireland and Scotland considered as UK's House of Lords discusses bridge options
Roads Minister Baroness Vere of Norbiton said not only a bridge, there was even talk of a potential tunnel, now tunnelling costs had come down.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/tunnel-between-northern-ireland-scotland-21233513
No Scotland?
A leading architect who first proposed building a Celtic Crossing bridge has hit out at a new plan for a tunnel between Britain and Ireland – which would miss out Scotland.
DUP MP Paul Girvan says they will keep pressure for a UK - Northern Ireland fixed link, after it was learned that no feasibility study into the cross-channel link idea has yet been commissioned by the UK Government.
Can Boris's bridge (or an immersed tunnel) hold up?
"The traffic on an Irish Sea crossing is unlikely to exceed 20% of that seen in the English Channel"
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/can-boriss-bridge-hold-up-38892820.html
The results of a feasibility study into the construction of a combined bridge and tunnel connection at the narrowest 20-mile gap between the British mainland and Northern Ireland will be reviewed by Mr Johnson.
Under one version of Mr Johnson’s plan, the bridge would run from the Scottish coast over the trench, before becoming a tunnel for the final stretch to Northern Ireland.
A bridge to Northern Ireland isn’t impossible, it’s just stupid
“From an engineering perspective, it’s not by any means impossible – it’s definitely possible to do,” says Luke Prendergast, assistant professor in civil engineering at the University of Nottingham. “There’s just a significant amount of challenges that would need to be overcome.”
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/northern-ireland-scotland-bridge
A train from London to New York? The tunnels and bridges that could change the world
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/driving-holidays/bridge-tunnel-london-new-york-boris/
Boris Johnson's grand plan to build an undersea tunnel as part of a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland is 130 years old! (And here are the drawings that prove it)
Plan for Boris Bridge or tunnel linking Scotland and N Ireland rubbished by opponents
The construction of a 22-mile tunnel linking Scotland and Northern Ireland is being seriously investigated by the UK Government, says the Scottish Secretary Alister Jack.
Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has said he favours the building of a tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland – and claims Boris Johnson is “on the same page”.
The leaders of Northern Ireland's main unionist parties give contrasting reactions to the idea of building a tunnel to Scotland
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It is a proposal you don't expect from a Britain, with all its out of date infrastructure.
Probably a tunnel is not feasible for the route marked on this map because of Beaufort’s Dyke (a submarine trench reportedly deeper than 200 meters). But for the second route (not marked on this map) frrom up north from Kintyre peninsula to Ireland is more feasible.
All things given, at this stage it seems lipservice by a politician stuck in a Brexit nightmare.