The 12,400 mile superhighway from Britain to America: Plans proposed...

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | March 24, 2015 | Will Stewart

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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.

[Marko413]

Big Diomede Island (between Russia and Alaska) is going to get a big jump in tourism. It’s the only stop between what would otherwise be a 50 mile long bridge.

[mc5cents]

Emergency!

Yes one funny movie.

[Red Badger]

They also get a discount on their insurance for having one................We should have that!.............

[thefactor]

Between the crazy Russian drivers and the Russian police, ZERO Americans would ever make it through that course alive.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Check this out. We could hop in the car and nip over to look up the Kavilkavov’s in Kamchatka!

[InMemoriam]

The Russian Army took one look at the Russian Navy and demanded this.

[BigEdLB]

They did this in the movies - Almost

[katana]

They're the kinds of things you'd expect to see on the roads surrounding the Kennedy Compound

Now, THAT was funny.

[Logical me]

How many gas stations would be needed and plug in for electric. What a joke.

[notdownwidems]

Is that from ‘The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming’? Very good movie

[Faith-Hope]

Because of the weather I can't see this happening. Not in my lifetime. By the time it is finished it would have to be redone in many places because of weather. Also who would want to use it if it was built? Guess? This is someones pipe dream.

[Loyalist]

Try building 1,500 miles of four-lane highway from the end of the Kolyma Road to the easternmost tip of Siberia, and the infrastructure to support it and the traffic year-round, to anything resembling an acceptable standard to American or European users.

Then try extending the Trans-Siberian Railroad to link up with a new railway in Alaska. Differing gauges would be the least of problems.

Then try building the bridge itself to withstand the heaviest ice and coldest temperatures any bridge has been subjected to.

I can think of a hundred different hurdles before the first shovel goes into the ground.

[Rodamala]

Article makes me recall the Bob and Ray show sketch where they are interviewing the designer of the first Trans-Atlantic bridge... which had just opened for traffic, even though it had yet to be completed.

As they interviewed, every 15 seconds you would hear a car racing by in the background and then a splash.

[Star Traveler]

I did an over 10,000 mile road trip a number of years ago. I did it in about three and a half weeks ... :-) ...

[eyedigress]

[NorthernTraveler]

Darrien Straight.

60 miles of swamp with no roads in southern Panama.

Reportedly a guy crossed it once on a motorcycle.

Rokon Trailbreaker - two wheel drive, floats, wheels hubs are extra fuel tanks. Took him 30 days.

[Star Traveler]

Amazing!

[headstamp 2]

I bet 70% of it is drunk driving.

[cuban leaf]

My thoughts exactly. Eventually we may have the technology to do it cheaply and make it safe cheaply as well. But not yet.

It would be interesting as a cargo highway with all unmanned vehicles.

[CA Conservative]

Sure, let’s build a bridge for Putin to drive his tanks directly into Alaska! That will work out well for us...