2007-01-07 09:32:58 · 23 answers · asked by The Desert Bird 5 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Rail
I have also seen futuristic proposals for such a link. It would not go direct (say) from Ireland to New York, but would island hop, using a mixture of bridge and tunnel. One such route could be Northern Scotland - Orkney Islands-Shetland Islands-Faroe Islands-Iceland-Greenland-Baffin Land and south through Canada. It is only a pipe dream, however. And to the reply saying it's quicker to fly than drive, indeed it is. But such a proposal would not envisage use of private cars, but some kind of very high speed train, such as mag-lev, traveling as fast as current aircraft, but far less polluting.
2007-01-07 21:49:51 · answer #1 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its funny you should ask this question. Yes they are building a tunnel from Newfoundland to Scotland. They cancelled the idea of building it from the USA because of the greater distance. The Canadian Government has taken on the challenge. There are 17 Newfoundlanders digging a trench outside St.Johns this very afternoon, they have been digging this trench since 1995 and so far they have excavated almost 4000 feet, at a dept from 2 feet to 40 feet treavelling East, North East. They are expected to reach the Atlantic Ocean sometime in the next century provided they don't run into any major problems.
2007-01-09 09:05:21 · answer #2 · answered by Waalee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I foresee at least two major problems: (1) The mid-Atlantic ridge is a volcano and earthquake drenched hellzone, and is constantly moving apart - the tunnel would be torn apart there even if you could build it (2) The Channel Tunnel cost over £12 billion in today's money and is only 50km long. A Transatlantic tunnel would have to be at least 3300km (Western Scotland to Nova Scotia) or 4600km (southern England to New York). So we'd be looking at a cost of at least £800 billion.
2016-05-23 04:37:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is one very imaginative piece of science fiction! The technology to build such a tunnel simply does not exist. Even if it did the cost would be absolutely prohibitive - look at the history of the Channel Tunnel between England and France. This went under a mere ditch compared to the Atlantic.
2007-01-07 09:39:51 · answer #4 · answered by Tony B 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I do not think so. I work for the Railways and there is nothing in the planning stages yet. Plus you have to think that the Atlantic is 2 miles deep & it would be exceptionally dangerous to build, maintain, and if a train broke down there would be a very long walk of 2000+ miles to get back to the main land!
2007-01-07 21:54:31 · answer #5 · answered by Joolz of Salopia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw something on the discovery channel about them building it. But it wouldn't be a tunnel like other tunnels. It would be a floating tube that would carry a super speed train. But the technology does not exist yet.
2007-01-07 17:59:42 · answer #6 · answered by Matthew M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I work in the company that dug the tunnel to France, if there is a tunnel between here and the states i would have known about it even if it would be done after 30 years.
It's not true.
2007-01-08 01:55:58 · answer #7 · answered by wizardof1977 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is just simply too far. Maybe they should just tunnel from Alaska to Russia, then we can take a train over land the rest of the way to the UK.
2007-01-07 14:50:31 · answer #8 · answered by michael7591 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put it this way, if it takes around 6 - 7 hours to fly from UK to US travelling at around 300+ mph in a plane, how long would it take to drive?
Can't see them building a tunnel to serve this kind of a journey really.
2007-01-07 09:44:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is next on the list after the tunnel is completed connecting Hawaii to California.
2007-01-09 20:11:02 · answer #10 · answered by Red 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋