On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 05:35:00PM -0000, Basil Jet wrote:

Speaking of tunnels, apparently the Faroes contains 14 tunnels between 760
metres and 6300 metres long, some of which link islands beneath the sea.
More are proposed, to link up all the main villages in the archipelago.
Considering that the Faroes only contain 49000 people, it shines a new light
on the ongoing failure to link east and southeast London.

There's a coupla fairly significant differences.

In London, getting from northeast to southeast is merely slightly
inconvenient. In the Faroes, getting around without tunnels would be
*very* inconvenient or, in bad weather, impossible.

The Faroes also has far less underground infrastructure to work around,
and better geology for tunnelling.

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