I wasn’t aware that our trade with Russia was large enough to warrant a 10,000,000,000 investment.
Surely very few would want to take a PASSENGER train into far eastern Siberia (except maybe for a day trip)....and spending a month crossing empty Siberia by train into Eastern Europe isn’t exactly most people’s idea of a good use of vacation time.
Let private companies build it if they want...but keep US tax money out of it!
I don’t think it’d take a month, but I agree.
If it’s worth building, it will attract private investment.
How Romantic. Siberian Train ride. It could be like Dr. Zhivago, right?
Goods transported through this tunnel could have been shipped from anywhere in Asia or even Europe. I’m not sure what the relative costs are between shipping or rail. I assume, however, this is a way of bringing down transport costs so even more cheap Asian crap comes into the country.