jack knox: why a long, long bridge (or tunnel) to the mainland won’t work - where can i buy a document camera

That's why the bridge connecting Vancouver Island to the mainland is a non-
Why are we building a bridge?
We just paid the last money on the moat.
Moving to an island, complaining about the lack of a bridge, like moving to the side of the farm, complaining about the smell of feces.
The engineers said it didn't work.
If we don't want to, we won't believe them, just like the answer we don't like.
We prefer what Stephen Colbert says is true, what we want to be.
Bridge problems are like measles, Klan, ISIS or Boris Johnson.
It comes back when you think it's eradicated.
That is why the Ministry of Transport has been delaying a document explaining why the various options across the Strait are not working.
Why not the West Coast version of the federal bridge?
Because where is P? E. I. -
The New Brunswick Line is 13 kilometers long, and our line will be twice as long.
More importantly, the bridge stands on strong rocks 35 metres from the ground.
Here, the bottom bits are soft and 365 deep.
Like a tunnel between Britain and France?
No, the tunnel is not more than 75 metres deep.
Japan's Ministry of Railways said: "A better example may be Japan's Seikan Tunnel, which is about 50 kilometers long and about 240 deep, the longest and deepest operating railway tunnel in the world.
"There is also the Eiksund tunnel in Norway.
It is the deepest undersea highway tunnel in the world, with a total length of nearly 300, but it is less than 8 kilometers long.
There is really no comparison for tunnels of the scale we have to build.
A floating bridge?
As of 2015, there were 11 floating bridges in the world, but no more than 2.
Water 3 km or 100 deep.
Our anchor is not safe.
Cost of fixed link?
About $15 billion, too much alone for the province --
But the introduction of the private sector would mean tolls, estimated a few years ago between $180 and $800.
There is also a question of where to find a crossroads.
The most likely option is the island.
Jumping somewhere between Duncan and Nanaimo means driving in Malawi, which has its own problem --
Not everyone likes the answer from the engineer there.
There are three problems facing Malahat: safety and capacity (
The ability of highways to handle up to 30,000 vehicles per day)
And reliability (
The frequency of crashes closes the only artery that connects big Victoria and the rest of the island).
The Ministry of Transport conducted the most comprehensive study of these three issues, in the 2007 Malawi Corridor Study (
You can Google it.
It has dismantled all the proposed solutions in an orderly manner (
Trains, ferries, bridges, widths or doubles
Decorate the highway through Golden Creek Park)
The impression is that the most realistic answer to the reliability problem is the route (
Including an option along the E & N corridor)
West of the existing highway-
This idea reminds those who work hard to protect the ecological value of the river basin.
The department is working on alternativesRoute problem (
Started another Island traffic study)
This month, the CRD committee was put on the record for opposing any public roads through the watershed or Sauk Mountain Park.
Instead, the water and parks board recommends that the department focus on bus lanes, speed cameras, trains (again), ferries (again)and medians.
These may solve capacity and safety issues, but have nothing to do with determining where to transfer traffic when the highway is cut off.
Trying to solve the reliability problem of bus lanes and trains is like trying to cure blind appendicitis with leg splints.
Politicians can choose the environmental integrity of the watershed rather than the needs of travellers stranded when Malawi is cut off (
This does not happen as often as we think).
This is one of the values that politicians choose to make.
Hey, if they have a favorite idea like $1. 2-
A billion bridge to the north of Sanic
But don't keep throwing the same question at the engineers, hopefully they'll give you a more satisfying answer than the one they 've already given you.