Abstract

The Channel: Bridge or Tunnel

The article focuses on the joint project of a tunnel under the English Channel, started by the European Economic Community and the European Coal and Steel Community, based in Brussels and Luxembourg, to reduce sea transportation traffic. Actual tunnel companies were formed in England and, France in 1872 and 1875 and actual tunnels were begun 1881. The present Channel Study Group is owned in four equal blocks, by the Channel Tunnel Co. Ltd., France's Société Concessionaire, the Suez Co., and an American group called Technical Studies Inc. The tunnel involves loading trucks and cars on flat-cars and whisking them through the tunnel at up to ninety miles an hour. For some reason, this prospect irritates the French trucking syndicates, which are newly rich.