Never heard of her but I agree.
Posted on 02/08/2020 11:17:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
Boris Johnson has revived plans to build a £20 billion bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland — with engineers looking to copy the link between Sweden and Denmark which featured in a hit “Scandi noir” crime drama.
The Prime Minister, who is keen to sanction a series of grand infrastructure projects as a legacy of his rule, is about to receive the results of a feasibility study into the construction of a combined bridge and tunnel connection at the narrowest, 20-mile gap between Northern Ireland and the British mainland.
One version of the plan would be modeled on the Öresund Bridge, which runs for five miles from the Swedish coast near Malmö to an artificial island in the middle of the Öresund Strait. […]
The bridge would be most likely to run between Portpatrick in Scotland and Larne in County Antrim, and engineers are understood to have come up with the idea of a bridge-tunnel split as a way of dealing with Beaufort’s Dyke, the UK’s largest offshore dump site for conventional and chemical munitions after the Second World War. …
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That’s going to make things in Glasgow a lot more interesting every Old Firm Derby between Celtic and Rangers.
Total babe.
BoJo is desperate for a trade deal on EU terms.
Maybe they should check out how the bridge to Key West did for the Florida East Coast Railroad.
He should go with the strength he has. Even the threat of NAFTA on Europe’s shores is enough to bring them to the table.
They say that the lakes of Killarney are fair
That no stream like the Liffey can ever compare,
If its water you want, you'll find nothing more rare
Than the stuff they make down by the ocean.
[Chorus:]
The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between England and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Oh, thank God we're surrounded by water.
Tom Moore made his "Waters" meet fame and renown
A great lover of anything dressed in a crown
In brandy the bandy old Saxon he1d drown
But throw ne'er a one in the ocean.
The Scots have their Whisky, the Welsh have their speech
And their poets are paid about ten pence a week
Provided no hard words on England they speak
Oh Lord, what a price for devotion.
The Danes came to Ireland with nothing to do
But dream of the plundered old Irish they slew,
"Yen will in yer Vikings" said Brian Boru
And threw them back into the ocean.
Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join
Each wanting his head on the back of a coin;
If the Irish had sense they'd drowned both in the Boyne
And partition thrown into the ocean.
Never heard of her but I agree.
This would be one of the biggest public works projects in history....
Thanx for posting. No need for my third cup of coffee.
They can hire the Chicoms to build it.
It might be a real boost to Scotland and Ireland in many, many ways.
Don’t do it BoJo! Sweden & Denmark did it and this was the result (”The Bridge,” Season One (Trailer)): https://youtu.be/_qGK1ETb-38
Except neither Ireland nor Scotland has the economic weight to build it, so it would be English taxpayers paying for most of it.
Parts of Route 1 (the Overseas Highway) to Key West are built on the old FEC’s Overseas Railroad right of way. If the FEC wasn’t already bankrupt (not hard to guess that FDR’s policies were one reason), it could have rebuilt after the 1935 hurricane.
It would be cheaper to just put a statue of Boris in Trafalgar square.
“as a way of dealing with Beaufort’s Dyke...”
I stuck my finger in a dyke once.
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