Okay, so that doesn’t work quite as well as Chunnel. But planning is in the works for another big dig:
Plans for a rail tunnel between Africa and Europe have taken a step forward with the agreement by Spain and Morocco on a programme of engineering tests. Machines could be digging under the Strait of Gibraltar in five years.
The Spanish transport ministry said �27m (�19m) would be invested over the next three years in a geological survey of the rocks between Punta Paloma, on the south-western coast of Spain near Tarifa, and Punta Malabata, near the Moroccan city of Tangier.
A decision whether to start digging will be made in 2008.
The tunnel would be 24 miles long, of which 17 miles would lie under the fast-moving waters of the strait.
The world continues to grow smaller.