Posted on 03/25/2015 6:09:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Route as roughly interpreted by CNN. The proposed plan for a massive trans-Siberian highway would link Russia's eastern border with the U.S. state of Alaska.
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."
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Cool. If I were younger, the road trip of a lifetime.
Two words:
Cannonball Run
In mre ways than one....
I think I would rather fly the other way.
I know, dating myself.
“Why Grandma, what a big superhighway you have!”
“The better to invade you with, my dear!”
I couldn’t imagine listening to “Are we there yet?” for that many miles!
Not to be done in December-January I'd think.
Who’s going to keep that thing plowed?
Russia has long dreamed of a land based invasion route.
Putin probably expects Obama to pay for it.
It would require hundreds of miles of new interstate highway construction in Alaska. Right now a Bering Sea bridge would be a road to nowhere.
I have it on pretty good information that when Russia builds highways, the concrete is thick enough to support heavy military equipment.
Exactly. They're pretty out in the open about it, too. The Age of Audacity, I guess.
A waffle house in Minsk. Can’t be any worse than here.
Think the environmental kooks will let the US build a highwsyy from Fairbanks to Nome?
That would be a great road trip.
Russian roads and railroads are used for invasions too.
Is it safe to drive through those places in the eastern part of Russia? Can you drive in Nome, AK in the winter? It looks like it would take a month to drive that.
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