allantracy wrote:
Bruce wrote:
The Channel Tunnel machinery was crude and simplistic on the British
side, but extremely sophisticated and impressive on the French side.


Yes, you can always rely on the French to be a bunch of poseurs.


Laugh as much as you want, but it seems you can rely on the French to
get the job done. Actually, they not only got *their* job done, they
bored and lined a lot of the tunnel that was supposed to be built from
the English side, so they did quite a lot of *ours* too.

If it hadn't been for the ability and efforts of the French, the
overall project would have taken much longer to complete and the final
cost would have been even further over budget.