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Walking to the Caribbean! (Part Two!)

Written by MarkC

First you need Transport, we can’t walk across the sea, so lets look at the time line to build new routes to get to the Caribbean (Jamaica)!

• The Channel Tunnel is 31.4 miles long
• It took 6 years to build!
• To Build to Jamaica would take 808 years!

tunnel Walking to the Caribbean! (Part Two!)

Ok then so what about a bridge?

• The Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco is 1.7 miles long
• It took 4 years to build
• On Average it would take around 9950 years to complete to Jamaica

Here is an actual Scale model of the Bridge (we expect people to have huge cars!):

golden gate bridge to caribbean 300x225 Walking to the Caribbean! (Part Two!)

Walking may be out of the question for a while, and driving, and taking the train. Caribbean holidays still require flying, at least for the next 800 years! Taking the Cruise ship would more than likely destroy the planet in months!

Also: Thinking of taking a Cab? Think again! The cost - Taxi!

• Your average taxi in London costs about £6.50 a mile.
• Your cheapest Barbados holiday (all inclusive holiday at a 4 star hotel, flights included) £1229.
• Taxi total cost to the Caribbean with a London Cab: £27488.50, no accommodation included, or dinner!

london cab 300x148 Walking to the Caribbean! (Part Two!)

The Cost – The Bridge:

• The Golden Gate bridge cost $35 million dollars (£21 million)
• To Build it today and across 4229 miles! (and with inflation, this is what it would cost today)
• $2,958,176,470,588 or $2.9 Trillion (£1.7 Trillion), that’s 5.3% of the entire world’s economy (54.6 Trillion dollars)!!

That’s almost three of these bad boys (a real note!):

one trillion dollar bill Walking to the Caribbean! (Part Two!)

Stats Taken from:
• Tropical Sky (Holiday Price)
• UK Government (Taxi Fares)
• Highways Agency (UK)
• Wikipedia (Average Flight speed of Commercial Jets, Golden Gate Bridge + Channel Tunnel)
• Google Maps (Distance from London to Jamaica)
• Golden gate Research Library

For a Greener environment Walking would be the best option! But for that to happen we would more than likely destroy the planet with the amount of C02 created by the construction of the bridge, and we would plunge the world into an economic disaster, so stick with flying!

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Posted on November 6th, 2009 under Holidays

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4 Responses to “Walking to the Caribbean! (Part Two!)”

Jimmy Jones

06.11.09

A very interesting post although I personally would think that if we encouraged workers to actually work we could half the time in which the bridge was made. Top Gear proved this with re-surfacing a road. All it takes is a lot of men and a bit of hard work.

Tropical Sky

06.11.09

Hi Jimmy, thanks for your interesting comment. Although we may be able to get the workers to work twice as fast (and this can sometimes prove to be a challenge). The problem is the bridge would still take around 4975 years to finsih…

Are we really prepared to start a project that would take this long, when by that time we may have a different method of transportation.

Clare Feest

06.11.09

If you build a bridge, what happens on a windy day when you break down half-way through your journey? How on earth would you build a petrol station half-way out in the sea?

At least if a bridge was to built you could virtually cut global unemployment.

It’s a fun concept, and thought provoking, but invariably I will still get a flight to get to my favourite holiday destinations.

Tropical Sky

06.11.09

Hi Clare,

I would have liked to have included this next part in the post, but it is very hypothetical. I tried to do as much research into this as possible :). Although a Suspension bridge may not be the best way to get across the sea, there have been talks and plans drawn up to build a more stable and robust structure across the Bearing Straits.

Although Hypothetical at the moment there have been some detailed thoughts into this. It may be a shorter distance, but you never know, it could expand!

And as for the wind, they had also planned to build a rest stop half way, although I am not sure how they would achieve this?

Here it is in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing

However we do agree with you that flying is the best way, and is obviously the fastest and by most statistics, the safest.