Morocco Tunnel Continues
Imagine driving your car or boarding a train, going under the Mediterranean Sea and arriving on another continent. The straight tunnel project between Spain and Morocco is coming closer to being a reality. A high speed tunnel connecting Europe and Africa is dream of engineers who see this as a possible engineering marvel rivaling the Panama Canal or the English Channel Tunnel.
While there are many huge challenges to building such a tunnel, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero looks at this tunnel as a way to spur development and prosperity of Spain and Morocco. Engineering firms, called in to do feasibility studies, have already released their findings.
There are many engineering challenges that must be dealt with in order to build such a structure. Spain and Morocco hope to get financial help from the European Union with the estimated costs of US $13 billion. This project will probably take around 20 years to complete. However, Spanish and Moroccan overseers see this dream of connecting the two worlds as coming true.
Planners are, also, looking at the economic chasm between the two continents. They are concerned that the northbound side of the tunnel would not be sustained because the African side may be too poor to support the tunnel. However, Spanish and Moroccan think that the tunnel would greatly benefit both sides. They are just as excited about bringing the two cultures of the different societies on both sides of the Strait together. They may be close geographically, but culturally they are far apart. The tunnel would be a means of fueling the economies and bringing peoples together.
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Source: brisbanetimes.com.au
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January 24th, 2008 at 10:58 am
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