Is the Transatlantic train tunnel from USA to UK really being build or is it just a bunch of science fiction?

Question

Is the Transatlantic train tunnel from USA to UK really being build or is it just a bunch of science fiction?

Answer 1

No mate.  Just Sci Fi

Answer 2

I saw something on the discovery channel about them building it. But it wouldn't be a tunnel like other tunnels. It would be a floating tube that would carry a super speed train. But the technology does not exist yet.

Answer 3

No I do not think so. I work for the Railways and there is nothing in the planning stages yet. Plus you have to think that the Atlantic is 2 miles deep & it would be exceptionally dangerous to build, maintain, and if a train broke down there would be a very long walk of 2000+ miles to get back to the main land!

Answer 4

Dont be pillok, is fore armie to marsh fru not tren. It not go UK Ruskies dig it from berlin to USA, dey start 1949 and had got 47 metre by 1990 wen werk stop.

Answer 5

no, its just a pipe dream!

Answer 6

I think that there could already be  a US-UK tunnel .. we know there is cables down there... so they might have been doing a bit of digging too.. I  would not use it if it did exist... I am even terrified of using the Channel Tunnel..

Answer 7

there was a Discovery channel program i think about this possibility. one problem, would be how to cope with emergencies. if something goes wrong in the middle of the ocean , like a big fire, what do you do?

Answer 8

Put it this way, if it takes around 6 - 7 hours to fly from UK to US travelling at around 300+ mph in a plane, how long would it take to drive?

Can't see them building a tunnel to serve this kind of a journey really.

Answer 9

It's true.  Due to open just after they finish building the ladder to the moon.

Answer 10

95% Pipedream and 5% wishful thinking.

Answer 11

I work in the company that dug the tunnel to France, if there is a tunnel between here and the states i would have known about it even if it would be done after 30 years.

It's not true.

Answer 12

It is just simply too far.  Maybe they should just tunnel from Alaska to Russia, then we can take a train over land the rest of the way to the UK.

Answer 13

It is next on the list after the tunnel is completed connecting Hawaii to California.

Answer 14

Its funny you should ask this question. Yes they are building a tunnel from Newfoundland to Scotland. They cancelled the idea of building it from the USA because of the greater distance. The Canadian Government has taken on the challenge. There are 17 Newfoundlanders digging a trench outside St.Johns this very afternoon, they have been digging this trench since 1995 and so far they have excavated almost 4000 feet, at a dept from 2 feet to 40 feet treavelling East, North East. They are expected to reach the Atlantic Ocean sometime in the next century provided they don't run into any major problems.

Answer 15

I have also seen futuristic proposals for such a link. It would not go direct (say) from Ireland to New York, but would island hop, using a mixture of bridge and tunnel. One such route could be Northern Scotland - Orkney Islands-Shetland Islands-Faroe Islands-Iceland-Greenland-Baffin Land and south through Canada. It is only a pipe dream, however. And to the reply saying it's quicker to fly than drive, indeed it is. But such a proposal would not envisage use of private cars, but some kind of very high speed train, such as mag-lev, traveling as fast as current aircraft, but far less polluting.

Answer 16

not on this planet maybe yours

Answer 17

That is one very imaginative piece of science fiction!   The technology to build such a tunnel simply does not exist.   Even if it did the cost would be absolutely prohibitive - look at the history of the Channel Tunnel between England and France.   This went under a mere ditch compared to the Atlantic.

Answer 18

I'm digging it now, got a spare shovel?

Answer 19

It's already open. For the next trick engineers are drilling a tunnel down to Australia and installing a lift.

Answer 20

No it's not being built.

Answer 21

there not going to do the tunnel.there starting the bridge this year.