To encourage the project, the French government allowed Disney to buy up huge tracts of land at prices. It provided $750 million in loans at below-market rates and also spent hundreds of millions of dollars on subway and other capital improvements for the park. For example express subway was extended out park; a 35-minute de from downtown cost about $2.50. A new railroad station for the high-speed Train a Grande vitesse was built only 150 yards from gate. enabled visitors from Brussels to arrive in only ninety minutes. And when the English Channel tunnel opened in 1994, even London was only three hours and ten minutes away. Actually, Euro Disney was the second largest construction project in Europe, second only to construction of the English Channel