Bridge between Sweden and Denmark
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When i see our decaying infrastructure I am jealous.
When i see our decaying infrastructure I am jealous.

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Can anyone in the know explain why half bridge, half tunnel ?

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Bridges are much cheaper than tunnels but they needed allow for shipping.

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Generally, but bridges become more expensive the deeper the water, and sea floor geology might make a bridge impractical. Whereas so long as the geology is suitable, a tunnel can go under anything i.e. a tunnel is unaffected by the depth of water above the sea floor.

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We are now having heated debates here on our island about bridges and tunnels.. This has been a point for discussion since The Marquess refused permission in 1945 for the then Scottish Office to build a bridge to the mainland from Bute..
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...traive-bridge/
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...traive-bridge/
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The half brigge half tunnel was because of thge proximity to a busy international airport. It is in the text (which I did not read !)

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When i see our decaying infrastructure I am jealous.
When i see our decaying infrastructure I am jealous.
I remember how sllck the operation of the boat train was from Copenhagen to Esbjerg in the fifties . It was an overhead electric system of course , as was our suburban train into the city, There was a short pause as the carriages slid onto the ferry. Arriving in England , I learned that there was only one train route with overhead cables (Manchester to Sheffield) .
Starting school , I and another boy from Switzerland were the only chidden to have had pre- school education.
The standard stainless steel kitchen ware my mother had bought in the forties didn't become standard in the Uk until the sixties.

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And now we are going backwards.

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We are now having heated debates here on our island about bridges and tunnels.. This has been a point for discussion since The Marquess refused permission in 1945 for the then Scottish Office to build a bridge to the mainland from Bute..
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...traive-bridge/
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...traive-bridge/

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The Duke of Rothesay ? Remember the Russian saying - "God is high in his Heaven and the Tsar is far away !"
