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Engineers added additional facts. The longest vehicular tunnel in the world at the present time is the 12-mile Simplon tunnel in Switzerland. With its approaches, the Channel Tunnel would be nearer 40 than 20 miles long. It should take about eight years to build, would employ about 7,000 British workmen...
...pilot tunnel proves successful, contract for the main tunnels, at an estimated additional cost of $125,000,000 to be awarded to private enterprise with an understanding that the operating company would not charge much more than $5 per passenger for the 20-mile tunnel ride...
...largely because of a screaming campaign conducted by the London Times, the tunnel project was defeated in Parliament. To pacify the militarists the tunnel plans were redrawn to include two dips, one on the French side, one on the British. In case of war these could be instantly flooded with sea water. In 1914 the Channel tunnel again came before Parliament. Two weeks before war was declared the project was suddenly quashed by the Committee of Imperial Defense...
Airplanes, long range guns, the intricacies of modern warfare have made military objections to the tunnel rather silly. Apart from the glaring advantages of direct communication with the Continent, unemployment in Britain has made the tunnel project a favorite with politicians. One of the last acts of the Conservative Government of Stanley Baldwin was the appointment of the Commission which last week made its report...
...pilot tunnel" be driven across the Channel at once at an estimated cost of $25,000,000 to test the geological and engineering problems involved. This pilot tunnel later to become a drainage and ventilator tube for the two main traffic tunnels...