Britain Cancelled a 600m Tunnel. China's Building 123km.
The contrast is doing the heavy lifting here.
Britain in 2005 killed a 600 metre underwater tunnel. Not 600km. Not 60km. Six hundred metres. Connecting a town that is, to this day, the largest in Britain without a train station.
China is mid-construction on a 123km underwater tunnel across the Bohai Strait for $42 billion, cutting an 8-hour trip to 40 minutes.
This is what civilizational ambition looks like versus civilizational decay dressed up as fiscal prudence.
China is attempting to do the impossible. The construction of 123 km underwater tunnel, the Bohai Strait Tunnel is on and it will cost China $42 billion. On completion, the high speed transport system will reduce travel time between Dalian and Yantai from 8 hours to only 40 minutes. It will be the longest underwater beating 53.85 km Seikan Tunnel.
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