Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 11:39 am
A Rail Tunnel Across the Strait of Gibraltar?
The Washington Post reports that Spain and Morocco are working on plans to build a high-speed rail tunnel across the Strait of Gibraltar. But the project faces much more serious engineering challenges than the Channel Tunnel did.
For starters, the water is exponentially deeper: nearly 3,000 feet at the shortest route across the strait, compared with […]