1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190 
If only... government looked it Channel bridge scheme
Page 12
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
efore the Chunnel, proposals were put to the government for a !1-mile bridge across the sea to France. Roanna Avison reports.
AULIERS COULD have iven across the English Channel a three-lane motorway had ans submitted to Margaret iatcher in the 1980s been approved by the Tory government.
Documents released from the National Archive this week show that civil engineers said tunnelling under the Channel would be impractical and instead suggested a 21-mile bridge from either Dover or Folkestone.
It was estimated that trucks would have to pay £8 a day to cross while cars would be charged.E.5.60.
The submission,which was made by LinktoEurope, said the £3bn plans had backing from private financiers and the bridge would be built along the lines of Severn Bridge, although it did admit the huge pylons on which the bridge would rest could cause problems for navigation in the Channel.
But they said the structure would be strong enough to sustain an impact with a ship.
A formal submission was presented to the government in April 1981, but there is no record of how seriously it considered the plan for a Channel bridge.