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