OPINION - Eurostar turns 30 – but should it have been a bridge?

Then, successful precocious 1960, Société d’études du pont sur la Manche was established to research a obstruction and roadworthy span betwixt England and France, The archetypal task projected was a 21-mile bridge, comprised of 8 roadworthy lanes and 2 obstruction lines. By 1963, this had morphed into a 'bridge-tunnel-bridge', inspired by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, This alternatively implausibly consisted of 2 artificial islands replete with work stations, restaurants, a hotel, formation and heliport. Hey, it was the Sixties.