London to New York City by car?

 

It could happen if the head of Russian Railways has his way.

 

According to a March 23 report in The Siberian Times, Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin has proposed a plan for a massive trans-Siberian highway that would link his country's eastern border with the U.S. state of Alaska, crossing a narrow stretch of the Bering Sea that separates Asia and North America.

 

The scheme was unveiled at a meeting of the Moscow-based Russian Academy of Science.

 

Dubbed the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development (TEPR), the project calls for a major roadway to be constructed alongside the existing Trans-Siberian Railway, along with a new train network and oil and gas pipelines.

 

"This is an inter-state, inter-civilization, project," the Siberian Times quoted Yakunin. "The project should be turned into a world 'future zone,' and it must be based on leading, not catching, technologies."

 

Road from Europe to U.S.? Russia proposes superhighway - CNN.com

 

 

This idea has been around for years. I don't see it happening anytime soon with the way Russia is going now. Well, the idea of the bridge over the Bering Strait.

Russia doesn't have the money. Plus our relationship with them is almost back to Cold War levels.

Why would we give potential threats in Europe and Asia land access to North America?

Why would we give potential threats in Europe and Asia land access to North America?

 

Dont they have access now 4 months out of the year when the ice freezes?

Dont they have access now 4 months out of the year when the ice freezes?

 

I guess but why make it easier. Let them take a boat or fly.

I have seen too many Russian Dashcam videos to ever want to drive over there

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A) I would be shocked if Alaskans would ever be for such a bridge. Although, heck, they were willing to give $75 million in their own tax dollars to build a bridge to a tiny island with a population of 50, so I guess anything is possible up there.

 

B) I can't, off the top of my head, think of one positive in this project from the U.S.' standpoint. Not one.

 

C) I'm not an engineer, but I can't imagine the cost of a bridge that would be built that long, that would be able to physically handle the extreme cold and frozen conditions it would have to deal with.

It's not just building the bridge itself. A whole new, very long highway would need to be constructed almost all the way across Alaska just to connect the bridge to the rest of North America. Not to mention Eastern Russia and Northern Alaska are some of the most desolate, isolated, inhospitable places in the world. It would serve no real value the majority of the year. Sure it would be neat to do, but it would serve very little purpose.

If I had any desire to see Russia I'd be all for it. Cause you couldn't pay me to fly over that motherscratcher.

I wouldn't mind seeing it.

I'd build a bridge over the freaking Atlantic before I'd build a road through Russia.