Bridge feasibility study from N Ireland to Scotland cost 900K

anotherquestion

Northern Ireland to Scotland bridge feasibility study cost £900K - BBC News

What a waste of money, anyone who has crossed on the Stena line ship to Scotland might realise when you are mid ocean, go on deck and see the mad waves lapping up against the side of the ship, would realise that a bridge was a non starter.

Just imagine yourself crossing the wild deep ocean there in a car on a narrow bride, just thinking about  it gives me the frights, again what a waste of money and to those who wanted it "what were you thinking"

Money_Grabber13579

It was never going to be a bridge, that term was just used as a synonym for a fixed crossing of some type. But if anything would have been built, it would always have been a tunnel.

From my perspective, I’m not that bothered about the cost of the study. It’s now been done and the outcome is that it’s not economically viable (and that’s very different to it not being physically possible, which is very different to what you’ve stated - it is possible to build it but it just doesn’t make sense financially at this time). Which is fine and I accept that.  

However, the reason I’m not bothered about the cost is because we should always be challenging ourselves in what we do. Some things will work and some things won’t. But if we never challenged ourselves, we’d still be living in caves.

anotherquestion

As far as I recall, there were two options one a bridge and  a tunnel through thousands of tonnes of military munitions that had been dumped there, so that soon ruled that out.

What else would you like to spend 900k on so that we can challenge ourselves?
Still think a total waste of money, though some people are  probably laughing all the way to the bank.

Maybe a bridge might be crossable if built 50-60 days a year depending on sea conditions but I definitely wouldn't be in the car that crossed it.

Mnoee

900k is nothing to the government. They spent that much painting their plane in 2020.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53183925

They spent £500k on flying Liz Truss to Australia. Once. https://www.itv.com/news/2022-01-27/liz-truss-defends-private-flight-to-australia-which-cost-taxpayers-500000

Please, give me more feasibility studies on things that may actually be a benefit and less of this sort of thing.