"BOJO's bridge too far"

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Cited in Daily Mail article providing an assessment of the economic costs and benefits of the proposed bridge from Northern Ireland to Scotland

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"Others aren't so sore, though. Economist Dr Esmond Birnie of Ulster University, who has studied the economic impacts of a bridge, believes it would be unlikely to pay for itself in the long run.

""Even on the most generous assumptions it is unlikely that the total measurable economic benefits of such a bridge would come anywhere close to its very considerable cost", he argued".