Shetland eyes Faroes-style tunnels to replace ageing ferries

Prime Minister Farouz says that Chitland can enhance growth and stimulate the life of the island by following his country in replacing the aging phrases with surface tunnels.

The Chitland Islands Council says it is moving forward with plans to build tunnels for four remote islands in the archipelago including UNST, the most north in the United Kingdom.

“I think we have learned in the Faro Islands that investing in infrastructure is a good investment,” said Axel Johannin BBC News.

The Stealland Islands Council says its millions of pounds project is likely to be funded by borrowing and paying money through fees, which may provide a new model for transportation to other Scottish islands.

Critics say that politicians in Scotland have lost years talking about tunnels while Al -Faro, which has an area of about 200 miles to the Atlantic Ocean, already built them.

“It is frustrated,” says Ann Anderson of Salmon Sea Farms, which hires nearly 700 people in Scotland.

The island’s series produces a quarter of all Scottish salmon – UK Export the most valuable food With international sales worth 844 million pounds in 2024.

“Ten years ago, Scottish Salmon used to have 10 percent of the global market. At the present time, we are approaching more than five percent,” adds Ms. Anderson, who blames this segment, in part, adds for a lack of investment in public infrastructure.

It agrees that the UK must look at the bills for inspiration.

“Select what works well for them, then copy and paste and let us move,” urges Ms. Anderson.

They have built tunnels in Varu since the 1960s.

The 18 islands that make up the autonomous nation under the sovereignty of Denmark Connected by 23 tunnelsFour of them work under the sea.

More under construction.

The most dramatic is a 7.1 mile (11.4 km) tunnel connecting Streymoy Island next to two sides of the Strait on the island of Elysturoy.

It includes the only round in the world.

In its deepest point is 187 meters (614 feet) below the waves, and half the time of driving between the capital Tórshavn and the second largest city, Klaksvik.

Speaking in his herbal ceiling office looking for a crowded port in Tarfin, Johansson says the tunnels helped the development of the population and the archipelago economy, which includes about 54,000 people, unlike 23,000 Chitland.

“It is about ambition,” says Andy Sloon, whose company worked in part of the Farwiz tunnel project.

He adds that the islands led the world “to link an archipelago in the center of the Northern Ocean through blood, sweat, tears – and concentration.

“They have presented a wonderful piece of infrastructure,” says Mr. Sloan, COWI CEO, said.

The Stealland Islands Council on technical aspects and tunnel financing is now recommended.

Faroy tunnels are built using a technique known as drilling and explosion – where holes are dug in rocks, explosives are dropped, then the rubble – Mr. Sloan also says in Scotland.

“Undoubtedly, Steland can copy what has been achieved in these islands.”

Professor Erika Ann Hayfield, Dean of the Faculty of History and Social Sciences at the University of the Faro Islands, says the tunnels have achieved great benefits.

“People can live and flourish in smaller settlements,” while they are still fully involved in the life of the island and move to the “central labor market” in Tarfin, as she explained.

“In the long term, in terms of demography and social sustainability, many people in the islands believe it is necessary,” added Professor Havield.

But she said that the costs of some of the tunnels were controversial, as some of the Farrawis argue that they are being built at the expense of investing in schools and hospitals.

The main city of Steland, to tell you, may be closer to Tarfin more than Edinburgh – and closer to Copenhagen than London – but tunnel defenders insist that the islands are not in reverse water far but an advanced economy that is restricted by the poor.

The archipelago of 100 islands when the North Sea meets and the Atlantic Ocean includes Pierce the only space in the United Kingdom And a prosperous fishing industry.

“We are making more fish in Chitland more than we do in the entire England, Northern Ireland and Wales,” says Emma McDonald, a leader of the council.

“The tunnels can be incredibly transformative,” it continues.

“We are really excited about the opportunity,” McDonald added.

Oil and gas boom in the twentieth century Richat Chitland brought But the islands have since adopted the transformation of renewable energy and is home to the United Kingdom The most productive wild wind farm.

“Chitland is really indivisible with Scotland and to the broader UK,” McDonald says.

The Council authorized a feasibility study of 990,000 pounds in building tunnels to four UNST, Yell, Bressay and Whasay.

It has not yet been published an estimated cost of construction.

“The tunnels will really open this island for companies,” says Elizabeth Johnson, Director of Saxavord Spaceport on UNST.

She adds that they will “enhance the economic feasibility of the island.”

But with Scottish or British governments not volunteering to pay the price of Steland’s tunnels, the fate financing model for borrowing paid by fees that are likely to be approved.

“I think people realize that it may be a need for embodiment and I think people understand it,” McDonald says.

“They already have to push to go to the phrases.”

Currently, the council runs ferry services to nine islands, with about 750,000 passengers every year at 12 ships at a cost of 23 million pounds annually.

The average age of the fleet is 31.5 years, the costs have increased sharply in the past decade, and some roads are struggling to meet the demand for vehicles.

Hebridean and Clyde, off western Scotland, which is run by Cledonian Macbrayne, owned by the Scottish government, as she was sheikh and was progressing He suffers from problems.

Mr. Sloan says that tunnels can provide more powerful transportation links to the West Coast as well as the northern islands.

“Frankly, it can be repeated in Chitland, not just Chitland, perhaps elsewhere in Scotland.”

Mr. Sloan agrees that the fees are the most feasible financing option.

The drawings on the Sky Bridge were canceled in 2004 after a long campaign of non -payments, and it was canceled in the fourth bridges and Tay Road in 2008.

But Mrs. Johnson, from Saxavord Spaceport, believes that sheetlands will be happy to pay their way.

“I don’t think anyone I spoke to will be against the drawings,” she says.

Although there is no organized opposition to tunnels in Chitland, some locals reduce concern about whether they will change what it means to be an island.

Bat Burns runs the northern store on the British Islands, which is the final exit on UNST.

She was not convinced of tunnels in the beginning, for fear that they would change the nature of the island’s life.

“I love trying to move from A to B,” she explained.

However, after years of concern about the bad weather that the supplies crossed its store and the vision of the tourists turned away because the phrases are full, it changed its opinion.

“I have been a little bit in this before, but I now realize that if you don’t get a tunnel, the challenge will be too big,” she says.