off topic but here in my country we have this cool island at the coast (ilhabela) and there were some push from the state government (sao paulo) for a huge bridge to be built in order to conect the continent to the island. nowadays you can only cross it by ferris. the project was rejected by almost 100% of the people that live on the island. they know they need the tourism to survive but conecting the island to the continent with a bridge would ruin everything, cuz the next obvious step would be to increase the island's infraestructure in order to the (what would be) huuuge increase in people going into the place. that would ruin the natural aspect of the place, cost of living would sky rocket and the rich a$$holes would have a easier way of building huge skyscrapers on the island (easy to transport the materials). anyway, back to european talk with you guys