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'We need an underwater train to Ireland,' says think tank - BBC News
An underwater tunnel linking Wales to Ireland should be seriously considered, a transport think tank has said.Similar to the Channel Tunnel, it has called for a new route to run between Holyhead and Dublin.With an expected cost of around £15bn, the investment would be similar to that of the HS2 from London to Birmingham.The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Cymru Wales thinks the tunnel could be ready by the end of the century.
An underwater tunnel linking Wales to Ireland should be seriously considered, a transport think tank has said.
Similar to the Channel Tunnel, it has called for a new route to run between Holyhead and Dublin.
With an expected cost of around £15bn, the investment would be similar to that of the HS2 from London to Birmingham.
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Cymru Wales thinks the tunnel could be ready by the end of the century.
Regarding the carbon intensity of HSR, I again refer you to Railways, energy, CO2 - Part 1 and Part 2. This is another field without simple answers, because there are factors that make for differences in orders of magnitude. In the case of a super-long tunnel project, the main source of carbon emissions is not any fuel used for energy production or manufacture, but concrete, and the share of this in the carbon intensity of travel by HSR is a linear function of the lifetime of the structure and the traffic volume during its lifetime. (BTW, was "as opposed to other forms of public transport" a typo? The sensible comparison would be to rival modes of long-distance transport.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
The difference between medium distance and long distance, for me, in this debate, is the point at which air travel has an advantage over HSR in terms of consumer preferences for a given price point. Even short haul flights don't allow standing room, but that is for safety rather than distance reasons.
There are no border controls between the UK and Ireland which maintain a "Common Travel Area" and therefore no reason for lengthy security check delays on check-in. I hadn't realized Eurostar require a 1 hour check in period, which seems to me to rather defeat the purpose of HSR.
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While passing the 50% barrier was connected to the travel time reduction in late 2011, the ticket pricing reform of February 2013 had an even stronger effect, pushing rail market share above 60%. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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