Re: HST's, pollies and dreamers.

[RWILKE@bit.net.au (Roy Wilke)]

On 25 Jun 1998 08:29:05 GMT, dbromage@metz.une.edu.au (David Bromage)
wrote:

>Roy Wilke (RWILKE@bit.net.au) wrote:
>> Why bother with tunnels? Just build very long bridges.
>
>You can only put bridges in shallow water.

>One of the proposals for a railway between Great Britain and Ireland was
>between the Mull of Kintyre and Northern Ireland. The line would have run
>NW from Glasgow then down the Mull. The new line would have required a
>bridge over Loch Fyne, but would have had 3km causeways from each side and
>only a short span of bridge. 

>Cheers
>David

Thanks. I was joking with all those bizarre suggestions for viaducts,
BTW. (including the one which would link Hobart to Helsinki). :)

Roy Wilke