ABSTRACT
In any league table of large projects, created for the use and service of man, it must rank with the highest. And yet, through most of the comparatively short period during which it was constructed, it seemed to be constantly under attack from the media-bedevilled by delays in construction, spiralling costs and shortage of funds. That this should have been so is partly due to the normal propensity of the media to see bad news as the best news, but it also has a lot to do with the tremendous risks that all parties took at the outset, in their enthusiasm to see the Tunnel built. We had waited 200 years for the political and financial climate to come right, and the opportunity was not one to be missed!
