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☆タイトル：NEWS FEATURE Rail tunnel project being pushed to link Spain & Morocco
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Algeciras – August 07
1. Various of ferry with man in foreground
2. Various of cars driving towards ferry
3. Wide of people walking out of passenger terminal
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Vox pop, Moroccan woman, no name given:
“It would be easier to use a tunnel than the car, less traffic, much better. Look at all of us trying to cross now.”
5. People waiting to board ferry
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Vox pop, Moroccan man, no name given:
“I’m not sure, I’m not afraid. I suppose if it is a good mode of transport it will be OK.”
Madrid – Recent
7. Angel Aparicio, Head of the Spanish Government’s Tunnel project talking
8. Close up of Angel Aparicio sketching diagram
9. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Angel Aparicio, Head of the Spanish Government’s tunnel project:
“We are at the point of going from a utopian ideal towards a viable and rigorous engineering project. What the respective governments are doing is step by step moving towards a reality. At this moment we have been able to confirm that the 1996 projection (for the tunnels) with the added geological difficulties that we are studying, plus a detailed study of traffic, is still a viable project.”
Algeciras – August 07
10. Pan of horizon and ferry port
Madrid – Recent
11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Angel Aparicio, Head of the Spanish Government’s tunnel project:
“Once we get to the financial evaluation we must take into account that there are certain fantasies regarding financial prospects or future demand that have caused problems with, for example, the Euro Tunnel or many other projects of this size.”
Algeciras – August 07
12. Wide of ferry passenger terminal
13. Various of people buying ferry tickets
14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Raul Bernal, Managing Director of the Almansur Car Ferry:
“Although we may have to change our fleet or perhaps the number of vessels, neither of the two services, the tunnel or the ferry, are going to disappear. They will be complimentary.”
15. Wide of ferries
STORYLINE:
The first fixed link between Europe and Africa could soon become a reality as engineers get closer to building a long discussed tunnel between Spain and Morocco.
After a number of studies, a project for a high-speed rail tunnel connecting the continents is gathering momentum, raising the prospect of an engineering marvel on a par with the Panama Canal or the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France.
The plan would see the construction of a railway that could carry cars and freight beneath the strait of Gibraltar, giving passengers an alternative to the ferries they now take.
Currently, hundreds of thousands of expatriate Moroccans visiting relatives in the summer take ferries from the small port town of Algeciras, on the Andalucian coast – one of Spain’s closest points to the African coast.
But at least one passenger said that she would welcome a tunnel between Spain and Morocco.
“It would be easier to use a tunnel than the car, less traffic, much better,” she told AP Television. “Look at all of us trying to cross now.”
In 2006 an estimated 2.7 (m) million people and 700,000 vehicles crossed the Mediterranean from Spain to Morocco.
The queues for the ferries could start to disappear if the tunnel project comes to fruition.
“We are at the point of going from a utopia towards a viable and rigorous engineering project,” said Angel Aparicio, Head of the Spanish Government’s tunnel project.
The tunnel would bore deep under the Strait of Gibraltar, the narrow waterway where the Atlantic flows into the Mediterranean, and run from Tangier, Morocco, to the Spanish town of Tarifa at Europe’s southernmost tip.
European engineering consultants brought in a few months ago are to complete a feasibility study this year.
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