Well, why not? the issue is what happens when grannie has lost her driving glasses down the back of the Hyundai and blocks the queue.
It’d be interesting to understand how that works now. The algorithm to queue how many cars to each train queued for departure with the least risk of delay. I’m sure there’s an interesting paper on it somewhere. It used to be of interest to me in the disk I/O days, when that mattered 
Anyway, coming back to the original point, what is the problem with not having further investment in the tunnel. Just use it as it is. Why does everything have to keep getting bigger, better, and more expensive. How about just maintaining the tunnel and keeping it safe.
I suspect it requires ongoing investment to keep at the same level of service. The carriages now feel old and are looking tatty. What was once an amazingly smooth ride is now often not smooth at all and feels like it’s got worse over the last 3 years. Adding a second operator can only increase running costs overall
OH said that when he took the TGV from Bordeaux to Paris and then caught Eurostar and said how sad the UK rolling stock was compared with the TGV.
Yup. Video here:
I think that ride quality and rolling stock refurbishment should be a matter of routine maintenance rather than further investment as such.
I would hope so, but suspect the system is not being maintained well, and will require more than just routine care.
“Passengers then have the opportunity to take a break at the Victor Hugo terminal in Folkestone or at the Charles Dickens terminal in Coquelles (shops, restaurants, play area, etc) or to drive towards the allocation areas before reaching the 12 platforms area, each 1-km long”
Capitalism demands that there is continued growth.
“If you are travelling on LeShuttle, which uses the Channel Tunnel, you stay in your car during the 35 minute journey from Calais to Folkestone . Once your car is loaded onto the deck of its shuttle and your crossing starts, you can leave your car to stretch your legs or use the on board toilets.”
@JohnBoy was referring to freight vehicles which travel in caged carriages which are not designed to have drivers wandering about in. They are completely different to the double decker car carriages.
Sometimes it is necessary to drive along the platforms - we were bumped off our train by flexi+ travelers arriving just before the last 3 cars could be loaded. We were taken in convoy to the far end of the platform, up another ramp and then around before being placed in a queue for the next train.
Semantics 
Capitalism may demand what it wishes, but it can only have that which is practicable.
True, we were not allowed to remain in the cab and had to wait alongside them for a minibus to take us to our restaurant car where a free meal was provided.
With 50 odd feet between us drivers waiting for the bus, being a chatty sort of bloke I decided to walk to my neighbour for a chat while we wait. Got an enormous bollocking for even dreaming to move from my appointed place on the platform. 
As my new friend was nearer to the bus station they only picked him up and I was made to walk back to my place while they trickled alongside me before letting me on. 
Some sort of need to match drivers with vehicles. 
Got the same from a little screaming Gendarme when I got out of the car in Cherbourg to snap the Titanic terminal from “the other side”. I visited it last year after the ferry was cancelled and it was interesting.
After I took the photos I wandered over to the little Gendarme whose colleagues were looking at him as if he’d lost his mind. Their role is to make sure there are no stowaways on trucks and I guess the others thought a limping old codger was unlikely to break into mad dash for freedom. The little muttered it was iterdit so I just said dac and wandered back to safety of the car.
I had a policeman friend who once told me that whenever they were called to some violent altercation, pub, disco, whatever, they’d always arrested the smallest participant first, because they were always the one that had started it Or is that verticalist. I suppose he was pulling my leg.
Maybe one of our ex members of the Thin Blue Line could confirm or deny
I think they pull your legs after they have arrested you. 
Which of course makes you taller.
