Channel Tunnel The project was abandoned in May 1882, owing to British political and press campaigns asserting that a tunnel would compromise Britain's national defences. These early works were encountered more than a century later during the TML project. A 1907 film, "Tunnelling the English Channel" by pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès, depicts King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel. In 1919, during the Paris Peace Conference, the British prime minister, David Lloyd George, repeatedly brought up the idea of a Channel tunnel as a way of reassuring France about British willingness to defend
Kviven Tunnel Kviven Tunnel The Kviven Tunnel () is a long road tunnel through the mountain "Kviven", along the European route E39 highway. The road crosses the county border between Sogn og Fjordane and Møre og Romsdal counties. The eastern end of the tunnel is at Kalvatn, just east of the village of Fyrde in Volda Municipality (in Møre og Romsdal county). The western end is at the village of Grodås in Hornindal Municipality (in Sogn og Fjordane county). The tunnel was approved for construction in 2008 and it was completed in 2012. The tunnel was officially opened on 22 September 2012