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Dear Editor,

Re: Cross-channel bridge plans revealed

I read this article with interest. However, it is no surprise that there is little in the way of the large ideas, ideas that would really represent an investment for the future.

Given that the ferries and tunnel between them now barely cope with the trade, it would hardly be built before the bridge, which also, would be over capacity.

No. The large idea would be to construct a causeway, that is fill the channel in. It should not be too difficult, it is only about 40 metres (140 feet) deep and many of the grand dams in the USA are of the same size.

In the land so built we would offer locks so that shipping could still go up and down the channel, we could also use it as a land-fill site for all our rubbish; we could install a tidal power station in it (there is a net flow of millions of tonnes of sea water every day and this passes without doing any useful work at all); we could put the new major airports that the travelling public demand and finally, wouldn't it give jobs to thousands for years to come?

Yours optimistically,

Lazarus