goatsarah
Me, in southern Portugal: you seen that Spain and Morocco are contemplating a rail tunnel?
@zoe, also in southern Portugal: But they won’t build a rail line to here? WHY EVEN IS SPAIN?
Me: That would be HARD, Zoe. They’d have to build a rail line over at least THREE KILOMETRES of line across land nobody lives on and construct a bridge of about TWO HUNDRED METRES.
So difficult.
goatsarah
@zoe My mistake. 25 km of empty land alongside a motorway.
SO HARD
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João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)
@goatsarah @zoe that would go against their will to keep Spanish and EU tourists from coming to Portugal's Algarve region. It's the same reason Spain and Portugal find excuses not to link main cities between the countries through TGV lines (fear of one-way travelling).
goatsarah
@jt_rebelo @zoe Also, were a bridge to be constructed, it would face the insurmountable engineering challenge of water that is thousands upon thousands of millimetres deep.
So there’s that.
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Jon Worth
@goatsarah well there used to be a railway line all the way to Ayamonte. But the Huelva - Ayamonte section got torn up in the 1980s…
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