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Underwater links in the pipeline?
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,HANNEL TUNNELS are in the news gain this week, with Government pproval expected soon for the Englandranee link, and pressure beginning to uild up for a Scotland-Ireland connecon.
Transport Minister Norman Fowler Did the Commons last week that a overnment statement on the Channel unnel will be made "within the next few reeks".
He said he is still awaiting interim amments from Sir Alec Cairncross who ; examining the economic aspects of ritish Rail's plans for a £100m single-ack tunnel.
If the tunnel project goes ahead, Mr owler says he will welcome private Ands to assist BR, and it is widely exected that the European Economic :ommunity's infrastructure fund could e used to provide at least £140m.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that EEC officials see an -injection of community funds for a tunnel, and for an East Anglia-West Midlands motorway, as a means of reducing Britain's net contribution to European funds.
And European Parliament MPs Richard Cottrell, Alisdair Hutton, and John Taylor want the Parliament to initiate a feasibility study into a tunnel link between Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Speaking in Strasbourg, they said that such a link would help the EEC economy, and would be beneficial to the economies of the areas which it links.
Traffic on the Loch Ryan-Larne route has grown rapidly over the last 20 years, much of it carrying goods vehicles, and European funds have already been used to expand port facilities.
The EEC transport infrastructure fund would be used to support projects which help the community as a whole, and which ease bottlenecks at frontiers.