China may build an undersea train to America

[Duque de Bragança]

No public money was spent?  I was under the impression there were subsidies, and I don't think breaking even is a severe criteria.  So it's been in operation for 20 years and still hasn't even broken even?  That doesn't sound like a success.

Your severe criteria as in "the money gained equaled the money spent both private and public" (sic). How much do you value Britain being linked to the mainland for trains and cars with storms in the Channel no longer isolating the Continent from the Britain?
Your impression is just an impression as The tunnel was financed partly from investment by shareholders and partly from £8bn of debt.

No government money was invested in the building of the tunnel,

http://web.archive.org/web/20101123153410/http://www.eurotunnel.com/ukcP3Main/ukcCorporate/ukcTunnelInfrastructure/ukcDevelopment/ukpHistory
That's from a not so recent criticism of the tunnel.

FYP.

I had been waiting for the classic joke British joke to show up in this semi-hijack. Thanks Mongers!

[Siege]

Chinese officials are considering a route that would start in the country's northeast, thread through eastern Siberia and cross the Bering Strait via a 125-mile long underwater tunnel into Alaska.

Bah, the Israeli underwater route will go from Haifa to Miami.

[mongers]

No public money was spent?  I was under the impression there were subsidies, and I don't think breaking even is a severe criteria.  So it's been in operation for 20 years and still hasn't even broken even?  That doesn't sound like a success.

Your severe criteria as in "the money gained equaled the money spent both private and public" (sic). How much do you value Britain being linked to the mainland for trains and cars with storms in the Channel no longer isolating the Continent from the Britain?
Your impression is just an impression as The tunnel was financed partly from investment by shareholders and partly from £8bn of debt.

No government money was invested in the building of the tunnel,

http://web.archive.org/web/20101123153410/http://www.eurotunnel.com/ukcP3Main/ukcCorporate/ukcTunnelInfrastructure/ukcDevelopment/ukpHistory
That's from a not so recent criticism of the tunnel.

FYP.

I had been waiting for the classic joke British joke to show up in this semi-hijack. Thanks Mongers!

[Ideologue]

Chinese officials are considering a route that would start in the country's northeast, thread through eastern Siberia and cross the Bering Strait via a 125-mile long underwater tunnel into Alaska.

Bah, the Israeli underwater route will go from Haifa to Miami.

I guess the Sino-Israeli technological exchange is a two-lane street.

[grumbler]

Bah, the Israeli underwater route will go from Haifa to Miami.

You didn't get the word?  It already does.