The Channel Tunnel Rail Link: is engineering newsworthy at last?

I was so pleased to see a decent article in the mainstream press recently about the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, that astonishing project going on in London at the moment. I was even more pleased to see another ...and another. The cover story on the Sunday Times colour supplement. A whole special issue of The Guardian's G2. Where will it end? Is engineering newsworthy at last?
I'm assuming the project has got itself a PR operation going. Good for them. This is a feat of engineering which is breathtaking in its scope, and everyone should know about it. Read the two paragraphs below from the Sunday Times piece. Get this story into schools now!

"[technical director] Mike Glover started out as an actuary, then decided 'something was missing in my life'. At such moments most people become religious, read self-help books or try to contact dead relatives, but Glover did a degree in engineering, since when he has 'never had a boring day'. "It's not just design, it's a venture, it's soup to nuts... I find that hard to get across to people."
It is a repeated refrain - engineering is a great, wonderful heroic activity and everyone should do it. I understand their feelings. These days, architects steal the glory and engineers are seen as the poor grunts in bad suits and hard hats. Barlow, Telford and Brunel are big names from another age; modern engineers are nobodies.
"We need," muses Isabel Coman, a 31-year-old senior engineer at St Pancras, "a television series like ER about engineers. Everyone is so proud of this. It will be here in 100 years' time."
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