Shetland eyes to change the ghats of Persian-style tunnels

The Pharoze Prime Minister says that Shetland can promote development by following his country in changing the aging ghats with the undergrow tunnels and the island can revive life.

The Shetland Islands Council says it is moving ahead with a plan to build tunnels in four external islands in the archipelago in the archipelago, including the forefront, UNST, UNST, UNST, UNSTIST, UNTIRLAG.

“I think we have learned in the Faroe Islands that investment in infrastructure is a good investment,” Aksel Johannesen told BBC News.

The Shetland Islands Council states that its multi-military pound project is likely to be funded to provide a new transport model for other Scottish islands, by borrowing money and returning via toll.

Critics say that politicians in Scotland have ruined years while talking about tunnels, while about 200 miles ahead in Atlantic, they are actually made.

“It is disappointing,” says Anne Anderson of Salman Manufacturer Scottish C forms, which employs around 700 people in Scotland, including just less than 300 in Shetland.

The island chain produces a quarter of all Scottish salmon – UK Most valuable food exports With international sales of £ 844m in 2024.

“Ten years ago, the Scottish salmon used to be 10 percent of the global market. Nowadays we are slipping close to five percent nowadays,” Ms. Anderson said, who blames the slide, in part, in the public infrastructure lacks.

He agrees that Britain should look at Ferro for inspiration.

“Identify what good work for them and then simply copy and paste and let’s go,” urges Ms. Anderson.

They have been building tunnels in Ferro since the 1960s.

18 islands Are connected by 23 tunnelsFour of which run under the sea.

Are more under construction.

Most dramatic is a 7.1 mile (11.4 km) tunnel that connects the island of the Stremoy to two sides of a foseard on the island.

This includes the world’s only undercare roundabout.

At its deepest point, it is 187 meters (614 ft) under the waves and halved the driving time between the capital Torshavan and the second largest city, Cluxwick.

Speaking in his grass-filled office, exiting a busy port in Johanssen, Johanson says the tunnels helped grow population and economy for about 54,000 people, unlike Shetland’s 23,000.

“It’s about ambition,” says Tunnel Builder Andy Slone, whose company worked on the part of the Farosa Tunnel Project.

He said that the islands have led the world “through blood, sweat and tears in connecting a archipelago in the middle of North Atlantic – and focused.

“He has given a remarkable piece of the infrastructure,” says Mr. Slon, who is the executive vice -president of the engineering firm Kovi.

It is now advising Shetland Island Council on technical and financing of tunnels.

Foroz tunnels were manufactured using a technique known as drill and blast – where holes are drilled into rock, explosives are dropped, and the debris is then removed – which Mr. Slon says that can also be used in Scotland.

“Without doubt, Shetland can copy what has been achieved in these islands,” he said.

Erica Anne Hafield, a dean of the Faculty of History and Social Sciences at the University of Fur Islands, says the tunnels have given significant benefits.

She explains, “People can live and thrive in small settlements, while the islands are still fully participating in life and come to the” The Central Labor Market “in Torshavan.

“In the long term, in the context of demographics, social stability, many people on the islands believe that it is necessary,” says Professor Hafield.

But he said that the cost of some tunnels was controversial, some Farois argued that they were being built at the cost of investment in schools and hospitals.

Shetland’s main city, Lervik, may be close to Torshavan than Edinburgh – and is close to Copenhagen compared to London – but the tunnel advocates emphasize that the islands do not have a distance backwater, but there is an advanced economy constrained by a poor infrastructure.

100 islands’ islands claim at the confluence of the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean UK’s only spaceport And a prosperous fishing industry.

Council leader Emma McDonald says, “We land over the ground in Shetland than in the whole of England, Northern Ireland and Wales.”

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

McDonald says: “We are really excited about the opportunity.”

20th century oil and gas boom Shetland brought money But the islands have since adopted a change in renewable energy and are home to Britain. Most producers onshore wind farm,

“Shetland is actually integral to Scotland and widespread UK,” says McDonald.

The council has authorized the £ 990,000 feasibility study in the construction tunnels of the four islands – unrest, yell, brace and whales.

This has not yet published an estimated cost for construction.

“The tunnels will actually open the island for businesses,” Elizabeth Johnson, says, the manager of external affairs of the Saxvord Spaceport on Unist.

She says that she will “increase the economic viability of the island”.

But neither Scottish nor UK governments voluntarily, to pay for Shetland tunnels, is likely to adopt the Borrowed Funding Model of the lending by toll.

McDonald says, “I think people believe that toling is probably needed and I think people understand it.”

She says: “They have to pay to go to the ghats in advance.”

The council currently runs boating services in nine islands, carrying around 750,000 passengers every year on 12 ships at a cost of £ 23m per year.

The average age of the fleet is 31.5 years, the cost has increased rapidly in the last decade, and some routes are struggling to meet the demand for vehicle locations.

In the west of Scotland, the Hebridian and Clide Ghats run by the Caldonian McBrene owned by the Scottish government are also aging and cause problems,

Mr. Slone says that the tunnels can provide a strong transport link to the West Coast as well as the northern islands.

“Quite clearly, it can be repeated in Shetland, and not only in Shetland, possibly elsewhere in Scotland.”

Mr. Slone agrees that tolls are the most possible funding options.

The toll on Sky Bridge was abolished in 2004 after a long -running campaign of non -payment, and was scattered in 2008 and scattered on Tai Road Bridge.

But Ms. Johnson of Saxvord Spaceport, Shetlanders believes that they will be happy to pay in their own way.

She says, “I don’t think whatever I have spoken will be against the toll.”

Although there is no organized opposition to tunnels in Shetland, some locals express concern about what they mean to be an island.

The Pat Burns runs the northern shop in the British Islands, the last checkout on the unrest.

She was not convinced about tunnels for the first time, fearing that she would change the nature of the island life.

“I like the challenges to try to go from A to B,” she explains.

However, after years of worrying about bad weather, the supply for his shop was interrupted and seen to tourists because the ghats are full, it has changed his mind.

She says, “I was a bit IFFFI-Fi about it earlier,” she says, “but now I realized that if the unstiner does not get the tunnel, the challenge is going to be very big.”