The Channel Tunnel ... in May 1994 with a big formal ceremony. It 13,000 engineers and 170 million hours to construct it. It ... about 21 billion dollars to build it. The history of the Channel Tunnel ... in 1802 when Albert Ma...

The Channel Tunnel .was opened.. in May 1994 with a big formal ceremony. It … took.. 13,000 engineers and 170 million hours to construct it. It ..cost.. about 21 billion dollars to build it. The history of the Channel Tunnel .began.. in 1802 when Albert Mathieu, a French engineer, .told.. Napoleon about his idea of an underwater channel. Seventy-three years .later.. the Channel Tunnel Company Limited began .digging.. near Dover in England but in 1882 the work .was stopped.. as the British were afraid of a foreign attack through the tunnel. In 1986 the French and the UK agreed . continuing.. the project, and a few years .later.. the first trains .run.. along the tunnel. After all these years it is quite clear that the tunnel is a success. Europe is .closer.. than ever to the British Isles. It takes .less.. than three hours .to travel.. from London to Paris by train.