Is this the answer for Venice?

Venice plans £100m artifical island to stop cruise ships invading the beautiful Grand Canal.

New offshore cruise ship terminal in the Adriatic could resolve the problem over the cruise ships invading Venice’s lagoon.

Venice has been criticized over the damaging effect that the cruise ships make by sailing into the lagoon on a daily basis……. is the answer to this to build an artificial island in the Adriatic purposefully to house the new cruise terminal?

You would disembark on the man-made, 3,000ft-long jetty and board a fleet of catamarans which would ferry you into Venice.
Each catamaran would be able to take around 800 passengers, with the transfer to Venice’s historic centre taking less than an hour.

The proposed solution would allow passengers to still experience the thrill of entering the lagoon by boat, but would satisfy the complaints of the many Venetians who say that the giant cruise ships are an eyesore, dwarfing the city’s bell towers and palazzi as they sail through the lagoon.

This would also reduce the pollution and damage to the beautiful buildings that makes Venice as famous as its canals…… At the moment the cruise ships can sail within a few hundred yards of St Mark’s Square and along the narrow Giudecca Canal to the existing cruise ship terminal. Surely we need to protect the amazing buildings to allow us to enjoy them for years to come.

Another option is to dredge a new channel in the lagoon known as the Contorta-Sant’Angelo, which would enable ships to access the existing cruise ship terminal without sailing so close to Venice.
But the artificial jetty, which would cost around 128 million euros (£100 million), would dispense with the need for the channel, which environmentalists object to on the grounds that it would upset the ecosystem of the lagoon.

Up to five big cruise ships could dock at the proposed new terminal, which would be built on an artificial island at the mouth of the northernmost of three inlets which connect the lagoon to the Adriatic.

Hopefully we will hear in the upcoming months of a decision and I for one would back the new island rather than dredging a new access to the lagoon and altering the structure of these waterways.