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To rectify our public transport mess – and stop people being stranded by volcanic ash and industrial action – we need a purpose-built 25-mile car-only tunnel between Dover and Calais.

Rutherford's column

21st May 2010

A decade and a half after John Prescott promised an ‘integrated transport system’, what did the battered traveller end up with? Disintegration. That’s what we’ve got in parts of the air, rail and bus industries, which are drowning in a nauseous cocktail of over-crowding, delays, rip-off prices, discomfort, strikes and the stench of failure.

Something needs to be done to rectify this public transport mess. And I’ve found a solution, at least for holidaymakers and business travellers heading to or from mainland Europe. All we need do is bypass the unreliable public transport entrepreneurs and employees by driving ourselves there (abroad!) and back (to Blighty), via a 25-mile tunnel, between Dover and Calais...

To read the rest of Rutherford's column, pick up the latest issue of Auto Express, available from Wednesday 26th May.

Have your say in the comments section. Is a car-only Channel Tunnel a reasonable solution to reviving Britain's transport system or is there a better way?




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3 Comments

maceda

Agreed - regularly drive through the 12-km Madrid ring road tunnel - no problems

By cfhughes on 24 May, 2010, 10:12pm

Snoozer

Give up with the silly idea of producing electric cars with a massive 100 mile range (in reality about 45-65 miles) which will recharge overnight in your drive with an extension cable hanging out of the window. Revive the transport system by creating cars the same size they were in the 70's and 80's the much lighter vehicles would cost less and with current technology probably do around 100 120 mpg

By snoozer on 24 May, 2010, 11:11pm

Force large commercial freight onto the railways. Use smaller vans to enter urban areas to deliver. Ask local councils to tie traffic light systems together to produce efficient traffic flows with a priority of getting vehicles out of congestion areas efectively.

By snoozer on 24 May, 2010, 11:16pm

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