[Gunslingr3]

This could never be built in the US.

Sure it could, it would just take 20 years and 30 billion dollars.

Meanwhile:

"According to the project manager of the road Chen Xingda, when the motorway was first proposed in 2013, there were three different possible routes.

Two of the routes involved digging a tunnel through the mountains in the area. The third was a longer route and involved building on water."

Proposed two years ago, and now it is built and carrying traffic. USDOT couldn't generate an invitation to negotiate in two years...

[21twelve]

A lot of the reason for the global warming regulations is to slow down developed countries and allow the other countries to catch up (global economic redistribution). I never thought of it - but I wonder if some of the bureaucracy involved in the U.S. is for the same reason?

I always put it to everybody trying to cover their butts and the general incompetence. But.....

[aquila48]

“Sure it could, it would just take 20 years and 30 billion dollars.”

The environazis and all the agencies that they now run would never permit it.