On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:41:51 -0800, Gregory Morrow
wrote:
>Hatunen wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:48:25 -0800, Furze Platt
>> But I would still think the British had a considerably more
>> difficult job of decision making than the French, who already had
>> track for their TGV that could be used. Not to mention, of
>> course, that the UK does not have the same sort of authoritarian
>> government that the French do.
>
>The Brits were concerned about possible military uses of the
>chunnel...
This isn't about the tunnel per se, since it was built before the
UK finally found a route for the high speed connection to London.
Before that the impressively sleek Eurostar, which looks like
it's doing 150mph when it's standing still, had to creep along on
regular rails.
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