Three in-your-face canals

[sollers]

The Suez Canal, allowing ships bound for the East to bypass the Cape of Good Hope
The Panama Canal, allowing ships bound for the West to bypass Cape Horn
The Manchester Ship Canal, allowing ships bound for Manchester to bypass Liverpool.

Comments

[sollers]

But does it qualify as in-your-face? The whole point of the MSC was a group of businessmen in Manchester getting fed up with paying good money to Liverpool so spending a vast amount of money to bypass Liverpool.

[gwendraith]

In your face? Probably not :)