MANAGING BRITISH PUBLIC OPINION OF THE CHANNEL TUNNEL

摘要

During the run-up to the multiple openings of the Channel Tunnel, there was much talk in the British media and undoubtedly in British pubs about the safety and security of the three 50-km-long conduits between Folkestone and Coquelles. A couple of months before Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ and President Francois Mitterand cut the ribbon on the tunnel in May 1994, the British government announced a much-publicized measure calling for life imprisonment for hijacking, seizing control of the tunnel, destroying or damaging trains or the tunnel itself, or endangering tunnel safety by making threats.