All, To me, not being a resident of those grand isles, a Pentland Firth tunnel sounds like a massive expense for little return. It wouldn't do much not being done by ship - just a bit faster - and would service, I suspect, far fewer people than would ever make it cost effective. Sure, it would be an all-weather job, but then sometimes retaining some sense of the wrath of Mother Nature is not bad for our humility. There was a huge hue and cry about the Chunnel, with arguments ranging from rabid foxes running through to infect Britain, to the notion of Britain no longer being an island. I feel most of those argument were bogus - no foxes have come through and besides rabid bats regularly cross the channel - and with modern communications nowhere is really an island anymore. In the case of Orkney, the good a tunnel would do would be mainly an all weather use, and the bad might well be a wave of tourists and visitors which locals would most likely become annoyed with, feeling the loss of their more or less private sanctuary. Does this sum up something of the arguments concerning such a tunnel? Tuck On Jun 18, 2010, at 8:55 AM, dear dron wrote: > 2010/6/17 Charles Tait <charles.tait@zetnet.co.uk> > >> Last for today. >> >> >> But I like most Orcadians am 100% against a Pentland Firth tunnel. > > > Why, for what reason?? > > Andrei > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message