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Ahh, I think the new Queensferry Crossing had some fancy innovation to reduce closure to high sided vehicle. Don't think you could extrapolate that to the channel though.Aerifoil shaped I guess.
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Ahh, I think the new Queensferry Crossing had some fancy innovation to reduce closure to high sided vehicle. Don't think you could extrapolate that to the channel though.Aerifoil shaped I guess.
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I assume the forces will be too great on the Channel. It's windy on the east coast but it's not the channel. I admittedly have made some assumptions.Why not?
I know a couple of posters have put forward suggestions for distance but I reckon it would be zero.No, I am talking about people driving vehicles through a tunnel.
Perhaps some kind if customs union or free trade organisation. I don't know if such a thing has been tried before.I don't think the lovable chubby hedge dweller was actually countenancing a bridge. He was using it to illustrate that there are other ways to connect our island to France that should be considered.
Unless hijacked and deliberately crashed into bridge supportsAnother point I picked up from the Radio 4 interview was the bloke saying by the time it was built, ships would be autonomous so bashing into it would be much less likely.
My money is on the bridge. Unless the ship is full of explosives.Unless hijacked and deliberately crashed into bridge supports
This man has an ideaI'm interested as to what ways. other than bridge, ferry, tunnel and aeroplane.
And phone.
And swimming.
I'm pretty sure it was to avoid fouling the airport approach paths. There are suspension spans in the bridge that were intended for shipping but, unsurprisingly, many ships do use the Drogden strait over the tunnel instead of aiming for the gaps under the spans. Malmö-Travemünde ferries are shown on maps as going under the bridge still, but I don't know whether they really do.Nope. To ensure free passage of shipping in a very busy waterway, it being the main sea route into/out of the Baltic. Aircraft fly over the bridge all the time. Lovely view.
I think we've already got those?Full length rail tunnels would be safer.
I bet someone said the same about the original Severn Bridge...Another point I picked up from the Radio 4 interview was the bloke saying by the time it was built, ships would be autonomous so bashing into it would be much less likely.
I was listening to radio 2 on my way to york ( only station i could find while doing 70mph) There was talk of there being much larger bridges in china etc and that ships dont bump into stationary objects they bump into other ships .Another point I picked up from the Radio 4 interview was the bloke saying by the time it was built, ships would be autonomous so bashing into it would be much less likely.
Another thing that puzzles me about why this idea was being taken seriously by anyone is that the channel tunnel's not at capacity (anyone know how far off it is? I fail to understand from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/channel-tunnel-capacity.140651/ ) and it seems like it's often the border controls on the road shuttle which are the bottleneck.