On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:10:51 +0100, Martin
wrote:
>On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:14 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Greg refers to the Victorian tunnel.
Upon re-reading it appears you are right. But I believe the old
bugaboo of invaion-by-tunnel did come up when the Eurotunnel was
first proposed.
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