A transport link from Great Britain to the Irish island is getting closer

It looks like a stone's throw away, and yet numerous plans have already failed: But now a transport link from Great Britain to the Irish island is getting closer. At least if British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has his way. He is considered a big fan of the billion-dollar project. A feasibility study is expected soon. The Ministry of Transport announced on request that it was about exploring ways to better connect the country's "four nations". According to the media, it is about a 50-kilometer tunnel that connects Stranraer in southwest Scotland with Larne in Northern Ireland. So far, a ferry has operated between the places. But other approaches are also under discussion, as recently reported by the "Sunday Times": According to this, Johnson is enthusiastic about a mega-project of three tunnels from Great Britain to the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea - one of an underground roundabout should be one Branch off the tube to Northern Ireland. This would have the advantage of avoiding the up to 300 meters deep Beaufort's Dyke sea trench off Stranraer, in which millions of tons of ammunition were disposed of after the Second World War. But the "Sunday Times" quoted Johnson consultants as saying that the idea was only suitable "to show how crazy the whole thing is". Johnson is fascinated by it.