Irish businesses want tunnel to Britain

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Some interesting stats. Perhaps there would be more demand for railfreight than we're let to believe...

Irish businesses want tunnel to Britain

Three out of four Irish business people believe a tunnel linking
Ireland to Britain and mainland Europe is important for Irish
business.

A MORI survey of 600 senior business people — for the Chambers of
Commerce of Ireland — revealed concerns over the rate of the Irish
government's investment in all forms of transport.

Rail transport registered high levels of dissatisfaction, with
37pc not happy with passenger services and 44pc critical of freight

In the wake of the report, the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland
called for the Irish Government to seriously consider the
construction of an undersea tunnel between Ireland and Wales to be
completed by 2030. The report proposed a tunnel from Tuskar,
County Wexford, to the nearest landfall in Wales

This is not the first time such a project has been put forward. In
December 2004, a high-speed rail link between Wales and Ireland,
beneath the St George's Channel, was proposed by the Irish Academy
of Engineers, as part of 'A Vision of Transport in Ireland'
looking forward to 2050

The tunnel to South Wales would be 50 miles long, approximately
twice the length of the Channel Tunnel linking England to France



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