HC Deb 14 November 1949 vol 469 c167W
75. Mr. Symonds

asked the Minister of Transport when it is proposed to make a further examination of the project for a Channel tunnel.

Mr. Barnes

No useful purpose would be served by such an examination. The development of air travel and of train-ferry services has probably made a Channel tunnel less useful than it might once have been. In any event, it is likely to be many years before it would be possible to contemplate the expenditure of the necessary resources in men, materials and money, on the construction of such a tunnel.