Submitted on Wednesday 10th March 2021
Rejected on Monday 22nd March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Scrap the N. Ireland-Scotland bridge & invest the £15bn in railways instead
Boris Johnson wants a tunnel or bridge built to link Northern Ireland and Scotland.
This is an unfeasible vanity project.
If Johnson is serious about transport for NI and Scotland, he should put his money where his mouth is. Scrap the tunnel/bridge & invest the £15bn in railways instead.
75% of the investment should go to railways in Scotland, and 25% to railways in Northern Ireland, roughly in proportion to their population.
If built, a fixed link could go through miles of unexploded World War II-era munitions (of which there's over a million tonnes) and radioactive waste.
In Northern Ireland, the rail network is concentrated in the east. There are only 3 train stations in the west - and no rail at all in Tyrone or Fermanagh. We can't justify this any longer.
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Do not build an undersea tunnel from Britain to Northern Ireland
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/575213
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