BRIDGING THE CHANNEL
GIGANTIC JETTIES PROPOSED SMOOTH WATERWAY BETWEEN. ISvdney "Sun” Cable.) (Received September 23, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 22. A Swiss engineer, M. Jules Jaeger, has proposed that European chambers of oommerce build two parallel jetties costing £75,000,000 at Calais and Deal, each carrying a double rail-track, and also motorways, to enable commerce to be interchanged at a lower capital cost than by the proposed Channel tunnel, 'to which the Committee of Imperial Defence raised objection. , The jetties oould easily be defended in wartime or, in the last resort, destroyed: The broad open spaces near the coast would be bridged by gigantic viaducts, to admit the passage of the largest steamers using the Channel, while the smooth waterway between the jetties would enable canal barges to communicate between London and Paris, contributing a considerable reduction in Britain’s, manufacturing costs.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12251, 24 September 1925, Page 4
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