• Dr John Adams is a lecturer in the Geography
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Department of University College, London and a specialist in risk analysis. He has been looking into the safety and operational background of the Channel Tunnel in detail for the past 18 months, and in general for much longer. (He was originally approached to do this by several large Japanese banks thinking of investing money in the project). Eurotunnel now has 25 billion of confirmed backing from the international banking community. Two years ago Adams published a book, Risk and freedam, on the record of road safety legislation, and he spoke on related safety topics at this year's Commercial Motor Fleet Management Conference. This article is an abbreviated form of a much longer paper prepared by Adams. Readers interested in reading his full text should approach him at University College London, Department of Geography, 26 Bedford Way, London. WC1H OAP.