He said the firm currently ran the cross-Channel shuttle service and also operated transport services and other port infrastructure around France.

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The rail-transport projects are political pyramids comparable to the Channel Tunnel.

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This is very interesting because with this level of power transport USB can become not only the data channel but also the power source for a variety of consumer electronics devices.

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At the moment, despite its lamentable performance, the company is being rewarded by John Prescott, the transport minister, for taking two big problems off his hands: the Channel tunnel rail link and parts of the London Underground.

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And for the cost of a cheap public transport ticket you can ride the harbor boat-bus around the entire channel and see the same sites as the tourist boats (and even hop off and on along the way).

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In January 1994 the then Transport Secretary, John MacGregor, told MPs that Union Railways - the company set up to construct the Channel Tunnel link - had concluded that "St Pancras is preferable to King's Cross as the terminus on environmental, operational and commercial grounds".

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