Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21dxe7nklo

Well, fuck that then

The company has stressed that engineering is not an issue but warns that funding is the "key constraint".

The campaign for fixed links has gained momentum because of fears about ageing infrastructure and depopulation in the far north.

The council said its nine island communities relied on an inter-island transport network that was "increasingly under strain" and "requiring substantial capital investment".

So the current system needs investment, which they claim is too much, but the tunnels whose only major hurdle is a vast amount of funding somehow isn't too much?

Sounds like hypocritical contradictory bollocks to me in order to get a distracting shiny new toy.

Yell has less than a thousand people on it. £400k per head to build this. I can think of far better money to be spent. Like an electric plane service between the islands. And three more ferries. And then a council tax removal for the island forever. And free ferries. And that would still be chump change compared to £400m

The Sandoyartunnilin (Sandoyar Tunnel) in the Faroe Islands was opened at the end of 2023 having been built for about a quarter of that cost in half the time despite being significantly longer and deeper. Can we go ask them how they did it?