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The 12,400 mile superhighway from Britain to America: Plans proposed...
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | March 24, 2015 | Will Stewart

Posted on 03/25/2015 9:51:24 AM PDT by QT3.14

Britain could be linked with America by road as part of an ambitious project to create the world's longest superhighway spanning half the circumference of the globe.

Proposals have been put forward to build the mega route stretching about 12,400 miles from the western edge of Russia to the Bering Strait where the country nudges Alaska.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Russia; US: Alaska; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: contruction; economy; highway
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To: Zeneta
South America to Alaska

No problem.

41 posted on 03/25/2015 10:10:50 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( Obama told us what he'd do, and did it. How about your Republican Representative?)
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To: QT3.14

Progress would be DISCONNECTING the continents, not opening up more connections.


42 posted on 03/25/2015 10:11:32 AM PDT by Iron Munro
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To: Tijeras_Slim

What brand of car is that?................Didn’t even have an airbag or seat belt shoulder harness and he walked away!................


43 posted on 03/25/2015 10:12:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: QT3.14; All

It'd be a great trip for Top Gear..

44 posted on 03/25/2015 10:14:04 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass ("Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Hedy Lamarr)
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To: Zeneta

That would be cool.


45 posted on 03/25/2015 10:14:28 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Kenny Bunk

South America to Alaska

No problem.


That’s what I thought, but when I tried to map it, well there seems to be a few areas where there are no roads.


46 posted on 03/25/2015 10:15:53 AM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

So true. They can’t even get a bridge across bay from Anch to MatSu Valley due to weather conditions. DReamers.


47 posted on 03/25/2015 10:16:39 AM PDT by Eska
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To: Red Badger

Lada Riva, by the looks of it.


48 posted on 03/25/2015 10:16:53 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Zeneta
.....a few areas where there are no roads.

No problem.

49 posted on 03/25/2015 10:17:50 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( Obama told us what he'd do, and did it. How about your Republican Representative?)
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To: QT3.14

Jesus comes back to earth and finds a young man strolling on the beach just sad.

Jesus identifies himself and asks, what’s wrong my son ?

Guy: Well, I’d really like to travel by car all the way to England, could a road be built to do that ?

Jesus: Are you nuts? It would take all the cement in the world, all the people in the world, all the equipment in the world to build that road. Sorry, it’s just out of the question.
Is there something else I might do for you ?

Guy: I’d like to see the Cubs in the world series

Jesus: How soon do you want that road ?


50 posted on 03/25/2015 10:17:53 AM PDT by stylin19a (obama = Eddie Mush)
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To: QT3.14

Why would anyone want to drive from Britain across Russia to get to America? Gulag tourism?


51 posted on 03/25/2015 10:18:06 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Tijeras_Slim

And the guy walking his bicycle across the intersection............

Russian drivers are insane!...................


52 posted on 03/25/2015 10:18:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: QT3.14

I’m disappointed. I thought it would be through the ocean.


53 posted on 03/25/2015 10:20:02 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: QT3.14

When I saw the headline, I initially thought someone might have come up with designs for a long road across the Atlantic, and I was wondering how they could do such a thing. What they DID propose is about as crazy! lol


54 posted on 03/25/2015 10:20:17 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Army Air Corps

Lada Lucky!...................


55 posted on 03/25/2015 10:20:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: McGruff

Kolyma, Kolyma.
Amazing planet.
Twelve months of winter.
The rest is summer.

Gulag ditty.


56 posted on 03/25/2015 10:21:26 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: grobdriver

Indeed.

By the time you factor in gas, food, rooms plus wear and tear on the family trickster, plus the time investment, it’s probably cheaper just to fly.


57 posted on 03/25/2015 10:22:07 AM PDT by Gamecock ("The Christian who has stopped repenting has stopped growing." A.W. Pink)
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To: Red Badger

Looks like a Soviet Lada which is a copy of a 1970’s Fiat 124 sedan. FIAT built a factory in the USSR in the new city of Togliatti, named for the Italian communist party leader.

IIRC most Russian drivers install cameras in their cars due to the still corrupt Russian police.


58 posted on 03/25/2015 10:22:18 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Go to Geneva and see Ulrich Zwingli's smashed helmet.")
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To: QT3.14

Going over a Bering straits bridge would be fun in the winter. I don’t know if a tunnel is possible.


59 posted on 03/25/2015 10:24:52 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats & GOPe delenda est. President zero gave us patient zero.)
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To: QT3.14

If you count dirt roads, you could drive from South Africa to the southern tip of Argentina. I have no idea of how long that trip would be.


60 posted on 03/25/2015 10:25:47 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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