Atsa big tunnel.

Clem72

Clem72

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Why does it take them 11 hours to take a 16 mile ferry? How is it cheaper to dig the worlds longest deepest vehicle tunnel rather than build a fairly pedestrian length bridge? They expect it to service up to 6000 vehicles per day, that's less than use the intersection in front of Gate-2 of Pax, maybe Maryland should spend 37 billion to build Pax a tunnel to fix the rush hour commute.
 
Clem72

Clem72

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Hijinx said:
Many hours are spent waiting on land to board a ferry.
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Sounds like that might be the process to streamline. How many extra ferries could they buy for 37 billion. I have been on a vehicle ferry or three, don't remember ever spending more than about an hour waiting.
 
LightRoasted

LightRoasted

If I may ...
For your consideration ...



So much tunnel length underwater, and under ground. How do they factor in ground movements over such a vast distance. Since land is always on the move, such a with isostatic rebound, along with the increase and decrease of water pressures due to tidal actions, how do engineers account for these changes?

Any engineers here that can explain this for the lay person?
 
Gilligan

Gilligan

#*! boat!
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Clem72 said:
Sounds like that might be the process to streamline. How many extra ferries could they buy for 37 billion. I have been on a vehicle ferry or three, don't remember ever spending more than about an hour waiting.
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How many times have you driven from..say..Mandal..to Alesund? Or even from Mandal to Eikefjord? Kristiansand to Bergen?..just curious.
 
RoseRed

RoseRed

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From my cousin that lives in Luroy...

It's hard to describe how remotely we live. Just getting to us can be complicated. Planes, ferries and busses have to all work out with connections (which they never do) or you end up having to stay in a lot of places overnight. And if we have to pick you up (which we think you would like), it's a 5 hour car ride one way from our ferry terminal to Bodø where you have to fly into (plus a hotel stay in Bodø)
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

Just sneakin' around....
jrt_ms1995 said:
Guess I'll never see you down here in Dundarrach or Tobermory, NC, then!

Or I could teach you how to say them phonetically ("done dark" and "toby more") and you could come visit. :)
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I'll just wave as I pass thru to my bro's place in Bolivia. I can pronounce that.
 
glhs837

glhs837

Power with Control
Sneakers said:
Yeah, I never know how to pronounce it.
MassOfTwoTits
MassOfTwoShiits
MassiveTwoTits

:sshrug:
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Go with WheretheMassholesLive.

We'll keep it simple, you're going from Haverhill to Leominster. Odds are pretty high you will not pronounce them properly. :) Tyngsborough another one.
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

Just sneakin' around....
glhs837 said:
Go with WheretheMassholesLive.

We'll keep it simple, you're going from Haverhill to Leominster. Odds are pretty high you will not pronounce them properly. :) Tyngsborough another one.
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Well, if we're going to play that game....I'm from Long Island. Near Massapequa, Hauppauge, Cutchogue, Matinecock, Patchogue, Quogue, and Aquebogue.
 
glhs837

glhs837

Power with Control
Sneakers said:
Well, if we're going to play that game....I'm from Long Island. Near Massapequa, Hauppauge, Cutchogue, Matinecock, Patchogue, Quogue, and Aquebogue.
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Bah, your overuse of Q and GU don't bother me none :) Of course, I did cheat a bit since L3 Harris is one of our big vendors and I've spent some time up that way :) Took the bike up two summers back for a week long engineering investigation and stayed out in Hauppauge just so I could have 40 minutes of riding to North Amityville every day. :) I had relatives out that way but like good Loyalists they left for Nova Scotia at the end of the war. :)
 
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