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Okay, it's reared its head again and with just a few months until the Local Elections..

Question 1 - Who owns the land (on each Side) that will be required and crucial for the Tunnel approaches.

Question 2 - When was the land acquired...

 

IMHO the only place for a Tunnel, is exactly where the Ferry runs at present.

Any other position would be an uneconomic disaster....

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Harbour trust lerwick side donkey years ago.. no idea about bressay..

 

a tunnel at the the current position of the ferry is pretty much an engineering impossibility without huge cost being thrown at it and the entrance being somewhere about king harald street play parks

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Harbour trust lerwick side donkey years ago.. no idea about bressay..

a tunnel at the the current position of the ferry is pretty much an engineering impossibility without huge cost being thrown at it and the entrance being somewhere about king harald street play parks

Where there is a will, there's a way and nothing to do with King Harald Street :thmbsup

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Sorry, but I am talking Tunnel here only.

I still would like to know who owns the Land, that would need to be purchased in the event that a Tunnel were to become a reality. :thmbsup

LPA already own the land and already have the tunnel plans they got from the consultants they employed to provide an alternative for the SIC Bressay bridge (which was possibly to be named the Sandy Cluness Harbour Bridge).

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2008/10/31/bressay-tunnel-in-three-years-say-engineers-behind-project

The tunnel approaches and entrances were to be cut through Gremista and Heogan.

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Sorry, but I am talking Tunnel here only. I stil would like to know who owns the Land, that would need to be purchased in the event that a Tunnel were to become a reality. :thmbsup

LPA already own the land and already have the tunnel plans they got from the consultants they employed to provide an alternative for the SIC Bressay bridge (which was possibly to be named the Sandy Cluness Harbour Bridge).

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2008/10/31/bressay-tunnel-in-three-years-say-engineers-behind-project

The tunnel approaches and entrances were to be cut through Gremista and Heogan.

I wonder, does the LPA also own the land on the Bressay side, or is that in other private ownership :?:

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. why bressay first yell is the most logical to link up first.

 

Yes indeed why Bressay first ????...Some things never change with the Shetland islands council... They want to do away with the most economical ferry first the Bressay ferry is one of the most economical ferries the SIC have and it must rake in a few £££ in the course of a year...Would it not be a better idea to give Yell the first fixed link first and get rid of the two gas guzzlers they have on Yell sound first..?

And they could even make savings if they tied up the 'Linga' at night and ran the 'Hendra' which would burn a lot less fuel why do they need a big ferry at night its not as if it can carry any more passengers...!!!!

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mabye someone that owns alot of land there has some influence within the council...... then again mabye im just cynical

 

Yes you might just have hit the nail bang on the head there engineer21..

And funnily enough that influence just by chance has land at the north end off Bressay just in the area where the Bressay end of the tunnel is to be.. :roll: :roll:

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So, who are the current LPA Trustees? A visit to their website seems to suggest Harry Jamieson and Brian Anderson are Chairman and Vice-Chairman, but who's who, is not quite so clear from the undated bulletins. Ronnie Gair gets a mention as one too....but surely there are more than three.....

 

Toll tunnel Steamer's Pier stylee anyone. :ponders:

 

What is the LPA's total shareholding in Heogan anyway, seeing as they owned the gut factory piers 100% before anyway, then they and Catch, which they owned a chunk of anyway, bought a 50% share in the factory itself. Does the LPA have any shareholding in Shetland Seafood and the SFPO who bought the other 50% of the factory.....Tangled webs, and we're still no oot o' da Heogan ebb yit.

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