Should Ireland and Britain build a bridge/underground

I think you should build a bridge!

Seriously though ...... I think we just need a catapult and a big mattress.

Cyprus would be similar, wouldn't it?

I'd recommend a large catapault of some sort.

think something silimar was discussed many moons ago, the name tuskar tunnel rings a bell, think it was a rail line between rosslaire and wales, but one thing that was a set back, apart from the huge cost was the rail gauge, quick serch on wiki will tell more, plus its wales

Well you have to look at cost -v- benefits really.

To build a link from Dublin to Holyhead, would be roughly twice the effort of the channel tunnel (being twice the distance). So it would take roughly 12 years to complete at a cost of STG£20bn, probably more.
Not to mention that we would need to massively update and increase our rail infrastructure in Dublin within those 12 years in order to cope with trains coming through. It also wouldn't be a viable passenger link. Why would you take a one-hour train to Wales when you can take a one-hour flight to London? So it would need to focus strongly on vehiclular and freight traffic.

With that in mind building it from Dublin may not be the best plan, due to traffic concerns. We could go up north, where the distance would be half the length of the tunnel. But then time concerns come in. It would take two hours to travel from Dublin to the linkup north, half an hour to load onto the train, an hour across, half an hour off and 7 or eight hours to London. So you're talking a 12 hour trip to get a truck from Dublin to London.
That's versus a 2.5 hour ferry and a 5.5. hour drive. The train link up North would take anything up to 4 hours longer. Which matters when you're a logistics company.

The best option may be Rosslare to Fishguard - roughly the same distance as Dun Laoghaire - Holyhead (twice the length of the chunnel) and relatively good for serving the rest of the Republic, except for Donegal.
Still a huge undertaking though and it would still require massive upgrades on our own infrastructure.

In order to make this viable, it would need to be possible to load freight onto a train in the UK and have it arrive close to where it's supposed to be, and not unloaded in Rosslare and driven to its destination. France and the UK already had excellent rail systems before the chunnel was started. We can't say the same.

I think one should be built from Northern Ireland to Scotland. Ok, it'll be a long distance for us to travel if we wanna go through it but it'll be the British government paying for it, not us.

Riddle101 wrote: »

Cyprus is not a country, i'm talking about countries that are islands

I wish that was true. Then we could have that 5-2 humiliation stricken from the record.

from rosslare to somewhere in wales maybe?

yeah but britain could do it!