It would collapse and Sinn Fein would get blamed somehow
Unrealistic.
Pipe dream, and by this time next year, it will be all water under the bridge..
Ah yes the Boris Bridge. Which like the Boris Airport will never see light of day due to being both impractical and ludicrously expensive. Also why would any goods vehicle unless going to Glasgow want to end up at the arse end of nowhere if main market is Manchester, Birmingham, London etc
Not worth it
Not sure the benefits would really be worth the costs. It’s not exactly linking Ireland up to the major centres of the UK, or onward travel to continental Europe. I’d imagine planes and ferroes would remain more popular.
Nah, it looks like the physical connection Loyalists have wet dreams over.
Wasn’t one of these proposed to be built directly over Beaufort’s Dyke?
Apparently it’s near impssible up the Scottish end, due to the depths andundersea terrain involved . So I’ve heard
Yes… lets build a bridge through an area where over 1 million tons of munitions, together with radioactive waste, were dumped in a completely unregulated fashion for decades.
imagine the crosswinds
Would be hilarious for UK to build it only for NI and Scotland to both break away, taking each end of the bridge with them.
It was a dumping ground for nuclear waste and munitions so not a chance.
Besides that, it’s really deep and its structure would need to be one the biggest bridges in the world and full of logistical problems.
Jesus god no!
Full of explosives, linking to a Scottish area that’s isolated and undeveloped, would involve 48 supporting pillars each bigger than the Empire State Building, would be closed for months annually as bad weather would make it dangerous.
Huge once in a decade waves which would make it extremely hazardous.
Maintenance would be a nightmare due to the corrosive effects of the salt water.
A busy strait for shipping so dangers of collisions.
Deep dikes underwater would need to be spanned.
Bloody tough rock, unlike the English Channel.
Scotland and NI are likely to leave the UK within a generation or two – so all that money spent for something that would give very little economic benefit for the UK. Even the Channel Tunnel is barely recouping the costs of construction and operation – this would be an economic black hole.
I mean the longest bridge in the world 160km in China. So it’s technically probably feasible. But if they haven’t done it to Europe / France why would they do it to Larne of all places.
20bn me hole.
It’d be the largest bridge over water in the world.
The depth is 4/5x more than the other bridges which are built over bays and swamps.
And the UK isn’t stable enough at the moment to do any long term infrastructure projects.
And it’s only linking NI and Scotland.
I support building a bridge from Dublin to Liverpool more than any bridge in northern Ireland.
Sure just build a bridge from Cork to Brittany along the Celtic Interconnector, that seems more likely hahaha
Linking to the Mull of Kintyre is absolutely without a doubt the funniest way of doing this.
English tax payers will never allow this level of expenditure.
I think it would be great.
Why not build a dam between Larne-Portpatrick to the south and Torr-Kintyre to the north and drain off the region?
I mean, aside from the sheer impossibility.
A giant pontoon bridge held afloat by Unionist intransigence.
I’d love to see it, but why would England spend money to benefit two areas they don’t give a shite about.
I’ve seen 28 days Later, no thanks.
It’s an absolute pain driving to Stranraer as it is. Getting up and over / down from the Mull of Kintyre would very even worse
Stupid question: Would tunnels be cheaper?
It was always a ridiculous idea.
It would be prohibitively expensive to build and maintain.
It would require even more spending to upgrade transport links in the north & Scotland to get to the bridge.
It crosses deep, open sea. It would be closed for part of the year because weather over that sea would be awful.
It would be built over a dyke that was used as a dumping ground for live ammunition and even some nuclear waste.
At best it would be a Unionist umbilical cord.
Would be cool but unlikely
The idea that you could technically get in your car in Dingle and drive all the way to Malaysia driving 99% of that time is a cool concept to think about
I mean technically you would have to take the channel tunnel too which I don’t think you’re able to just drive through so makes it no different than taking a ferry but apart from that stretch
Nope as who’d voluntarily go to Larne?
It will never happen. And it’s beat to ignore politicians who promise it will.
No, fuck off
It would be prohibitively expensive to build, never mind the state of the UK economy right now. The economic benefits would be minimal, the social benefits marginal, and the political benefits limited to a few hardcore loyalists, as the rest of the UK couldn’t give a shit about NI.
Boats exist and are surprisingly efficient and cost effective. Though I think we as a country should make big projects like this ( Big fuck off sea wind farm pls).
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That’ll never happen.
Nah.
It would collapse and Sinn Fein would get blamed somehow
Unrealistic.
Pipe dream, and by this time next year, it will be all water under the bridge..
Ah yes the Boris Bridge. Which like the Boris Airport will never see light of day due to being both impractical and ludicrously expensive. Also why would any goods vehicle unless going to Glasgow want to end up at the arse end of nowhere if main market is Manchester, Birmingham, London etc
Not worth it
Not sure the benefits would really be worth the costs. It’s not exactly linking Ireland up to the major centres of the UK, or onward travel to continental Europe. I’d imagine planes and ferroes would remain more popular.
Nah, it looks like the physical connection Loyalists have wet dreams over.
Wasn’t one of these proposed to be built directly over Beaufort’s Dyke?
Apparently it’s near impssible up the Scottish end, due to the depths andundersea terrain involved . So I’ve heard
Yes… lets build a bridge through an area where over 1 million tons of munitions, together with radioactive waste, were dumped in a completely unregulated fashion for decades.
imagine the crosswinds
Would be hilarious for UK to build it only for NI and Scotland to both break away, taking each end of the bridge with them.
It was a dumping ground for nuclear waste and munitions so not a chance.
Besides that, it’s really deep and its structure would need to be one the biggest bridges in the world and full of logistical problems.
Jesus god no!
Full of explosives, linking to a Scottish area that’s isolated and undeveloped, would involve 48 supporting pillars each bigger than the Empire State Building, would be closed for months annually as bad weather would make it dangerous.
Huge once in a decade waves which would make it extremely hazardous.
Maintenance would be a nightmare due to the corrosive effects of the salt water.
A busy strait for shipping so dangers of collisions.
Deep dikes underwater would need to be spanned.
Bloody tough rock, unlike the English Channel.
Scotland and NI are likely to leave the UK within a generation or two – so all that money spent for something that would give very little economic benefit for the UK. Even the Channel Tunnel is barely recouping the costs of construction and operation – this would be an economic black hole.
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/ireland-to-build-bridge-to-france-20191218191932
I mean the longest bridge in the world 160km in China. So it’s technically probably feasible. But if they haven’t done it to Europe / France why would they do it to Larne of all places.
20bn me hole.
It’d be the largest bridge over water in the world.
The depth is 4/5x more than the other bridges which are built over bays and swamps.
And the UK isn’t stable enough at the moment to do any long term infrastructure projects.
And it’s only linking NI and Scotland.
I support building a bridge from Dublin to Liverpool more than any bridge in northern Ireland.
Sure just build a bridge from Cork to Brittany along the Celtic Interconnector, that seems more likely hahaha
Linking to the Mull of Kintyre is absolutely without a doubt the funniest way of doing this.
English tax payers will never allow this level of expenditure.
I think it would be great.
Why not build a dam between Larne-Portpatrick to the south and Torr-Kintyre to the north and drain off the region?
I mean, aside from the sheer impossibility.
A giant pontoon bridge held afloat by Unionist intransigence.
I’d love to see it, but why would England spend money to benefit two areas they don’t give a shite about.
I’ve seen 28 days Later, no thanks.
It’s an absolute pain driving to Stranraer as it is. Getting up and over / down from the Mull of Kintyre would very even worse
Stupid question: Would tunnels be cheaper?
It was always a ridiculous idea.
It would be prohibitively expensive to build and maintain.
It would require even more spending to upgrade transport links in the north & Scotland to get to the bridge.
It crosses deep, open sea. It would be closed for part of the year because weather over that sea would be awful.
It would be built over a dyke that was used as a dumping ground for live ammunition and even some nuclear waste.
At best it would be a Unionist umbilical cord.
Would be cool but unlikely
The idea that you could technically get in your car in Dingle and drive all the way to Malaysia driving 99% of that time is a cool concept to think about
I mean technically you would have to take the channel tunnel too which I don’t think you’re able to just drive through so makes it no different than taking a ferry but apart from that stretch
Nope as who’d voluntarily go to Larne?
It will never happen. And it’s beat to ignore politicians who promise it will.
No, fuck off
It would be prohibitively expensive to build, never mind the state of the UK economy right now. The economic benefits would be minimal, the social benefits marginal, and the political benefits limited to a few hardcore loyalists, as the rest of the UK couldn’t give a shit about NI.
Boats exist and are surprisingly efficient and cost effective. Though I think we as a country should make big projects like this ( Big fuck off sea wind farm pls).