Tunnel from Red Hook to Cruz Bay?

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.

Help!

Shifty

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

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

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

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

For sure! Not to mention oxygen tanks.

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

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?


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!

Dan

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.

If there's an April fool, it's me😳

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

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

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