Bridge Between Mainland Uk And Ireland?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-50916337
Feasible? Great idea, any suggestions for a site?

[Spicerack]

Never happen.

[jackthehat]

Excellent idea.
Something like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98resund_Bridge

Bangor -> Jurby - > Barrow-in-Furness with a land-link to Carnforth.
It'd certainly provide jobs, money and infrastructure to a, sadly, neglected area of the North-West.

[TonyV]

Yes TTT my surname is of my Germanic past my Grandparents sided with German U boats in WW1 in Eire.

[Spicerack]

WW1?

[sanmac]

During WW1 there was no such country as Eire was there? I thought that it came into existence in the 1920s.

[alavahalf]

Strangely enough Tony .. many times I have heard the story from my Father, about his parents or granparents dragging bodies from the sea in Cork. This was after the Germans torpedoed the Lusitania.

[TonyV]

Think it was WW1 spicerack as my parents were building Spitfires in WW2

[TonyV]

OK ~ i'll call it Southern Ireland then to appease you.

[ToraToraTora]

during WW1 what we now know as ROI was indeed part of the UK, they did support the Germans, presumably preferring to be ruled by someone other than the UK, in this case Germany, very similar to Scotland today. They gained their independence after WW1 and proceeded to be, on paper at least, neutral in WW2 but there were many cases of activities that are not the actions of a neutral.

[Ellipsis]

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42772343
> Mr Dunlop said: "There are two ways it could go. It could go from Portpatrick to Bangor or Larne, but there are significant environmental and geological challenges there." ... The shorter route would be from around Campbeltown, the Mull of Kintyre across to the Antrim coast. "But getting to Campbeltown from the central belt is very difficult."
> ... "A bridge from Portpatrick would be about 21 miles"

The Øresund Bridge is only 5 miles long. A better example is the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge which is 34 miles long in total, the main bridge being 18.4 miles long.

It would definitely be a significant engineering challenge and, as the above article points out, the economics don't stack up.

[sanmac]

The project sounds a little like another "Bridge Too Far". That didn't turn out too well either did it?

[ummmm]

Lets not get into Irish bashing. There was a reason the Irish disliked the English (not English people)

[emmie]

good heavens no

[emmie]

what benefit would there be, except a massive cost and disruption to people's lives.

HS2 is underway as half of Euston has been demolished
don't know about the rest of the route

[TonyV]

emmie Euston and Kings Cross have some gorgeous brickwork aswell as the Library next door.

[TonyV]

^^^ does aswell

[emmie]

Tony, i know i live a 10 walk to KX.

[TonyV]

yes emmie are the museums still free entry with a donation, I used to enjoy some of their special displays and dinosaurs.

[emmie]

haven't been to a museum for ages, so not sure. Don;t get that far these days, more likely to go to the pub, lol

[douglas9401]

"Look at HS2 and it has not even got off the ground yet"

Not sure there's a complete understanding of how railways work, maybe some confusion with a monorail. :-)

As far as a bridge from here to there, I'd have a look at the number of closures due to weather when going over the sea to Skye. Two seagulls fart in unison and high siders are halted by a constable.