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I feel really, really dumb asking this, but one of my upcoming crew members for a USVI/BVI sailing charter sent me a picture purporting to be of "a bridge from St. Thomas to St. John." Of course, I know there's no bridge, as I'm there every year and can't even fathom the idea of a bridge of any kind between Red Hook and Cruz Bay. But I did conduct a brief internet search and came across a couple of sites/forums which indicate that a partial bridge and longer tunnel had either been commenced or even concluded. If this is true, I find it astonishing that I've never heard a word about it.

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πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚. Would not surprise me however with the wise use of government funding we have seen from both sides. 😎

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For years you could buy tunnel pass stickers for your car. For both the Saint John and Miami tunnels.

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Would love to hear a trip report on the Miami-St. Thomas tunnel!

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Wonder how much gasoline costs, to refill your car in that tunnel?? grin


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For sure! Not to mention oxygen tanks.

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What about car charging stations, for those electric cars out there??? rofl


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Y'know, it's only a couple of miles, and the maximum water depth is about 100 feet. Seems like a tunnel could be feasible, if there were a good enough reason.

Having said that -- Hey Shifty, it's not April Fools Day. Are you just messing with us? devil

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... and can't even fathom the idea of a bridge of any kind between Red Hook and Cruz Bay.

In Arthur Clark's science fiction novel, "The Fountains of Paradise", there's a suspension bridge (built of super-strong materials that don't exist today) across the Strait of Gibraltar. Now that would be cool!

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No, I promise! It was a question honestly posed to me and, as ridiculous as it sounded, I did a quick (and utterly in-scientific) Goodle search and found a number of posts discussing this.

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I just did a Google search and the first and only post on a "tunnel" to St. John was dates APRIL 1, 2015.

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Rick--ahh. I wondered when this was first posted, whether we had 'fast forwarded' to April 1.


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Both water and power are sent to STJ from STT underwater . The STJ infrastructure is absolutely dependent on this.


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