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"Chunnel" News
The Brits are putting the final touches on the "chunnel" rail system that crosses the English channel. I always thought the chunnel was vaguely ironic. I mean, for something like five or six centuries France and England did their level best to keep each other on the "proper" side of the channel, and then they go and dig a tunnel. My, how times have changed.
The irony of the Channel Tunnel isn't lost on us, especially the 'Euroskeptics' who want to reduce Britain's involvement in the EU. "And fill in the Chunnel!" has become something of a rallying call for them.
The Tunnel itself has been operating for many years, of course, this is part of an upgrade programme for the rail network that connects to the Chunnel. On the French side it connects to the European TGV network, on the English side, well, as Chirac put it, you can admire the countryside.
As we're talking about tunnel contruction; for many years the entry in the Yellow Pages for 'Boring' read 'See Civil Engineering' :)
Posted by: Robert UK on September 4, 2002 11:02 AMAnd of course, over here we have "the big dig", the United States's multi-billion-dollar gift to Boston. Ah, the wonders of seniority in congress. Now if we can just keep Robert Bird from moving the entire capitol to West Virginia...
Posted by: scott on September 4, 2002 12:56 PMThis is DUMB!!!!
Posted by: Who? on September 9, 2002 12:28 AM