This sounds LaRouche-ite.
I remember he wanted to build a railroad around the world.
Anyone know more about this genius plan?
Teitjen's business, Big Byron Agri Services of Grant, is one of three Nebraska members of the trade corridor association. The other two are a woman from Valentine and a Stapleton book and afghan store, according to the association's Web site.Sounds serious to me. With the generous assistance of the book and afghan store owner we could probably fund a Bering Strait bridge or tunnel.
McCook Mayor Jerda Garey wants the state to consider expanding U.S. Highway 83 from a two-lane to four-lane highway between McCook and North Platte, in hopes that the route eventually could develop into an expressway from Interstate 70 in Kansas to Interstate 80.
I can see it now, thousands of Asians and Mexicans zipping along the freeway by North Platte. This would definitely be a huge boon to homeland security.
See also plans to build a rail bridge/tunnel between Alaska and Russia. This could also include pipelines and possibly electrical grid.
Sounds good to me.
Only, NO EXITS between Mexico and Canada.
too late:
(what's up w/ORTIZ & CHINA SHIPPING??)
Texas port seeks new trade route
By Lynn Brezosky
The Associated Press
STAR-TELEGRAM
TRADE MAP PLANNED
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/6443236.htm BROWNSVILLE - Port of Brownsville officials say an agreement signed with Mexico's Port of Manzanillo-Glipsa on Friday will christen a trade route that could bypass the Panama Canal and give Texas a chunk of the $300 billion-a-year West Coast port industry.
"I'm very optimistic at this event," said Fausto Suarez, an official at the Glipsa port, which is a few miles inland from the fast-growing Port of Manzanillo on Mexico's Pacific coast. "Together we have everything we need to compete internationally."
The inland port specializes in containers -- 40-foot-long boxes used to move cargo ranging from food to cars and electronics. Suarez said the port can move anything that comes into the larger port, which is handling 12 times more goods than it handled in 1990.
Mexico has cross-country railways that can accommodate double-stacked containers for the entire route.
From Manzanillo, the trains can go to Laredo or Browns-ville and link with the North American Free Trade Agreement superhighways. Or they can be unloaded at the Brownsville port and their cargo shipped out via the Gulf of Mexico and then the Atlantic Ocean.
"We can ship to Central America, South America and Europe WITHOUT HAVING TO GO THROUGH THE PANAMA CANAL," Port of Brownsville Director Raul Besteiro said. "We're just trying to cut the time."
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, for example, already is pushing its Mexi-Modal freight shipping services that focus on connecting markets throughout the United States with Mexico.
Brownsville officials say their 47,000-acre port is poised for growth, with two union shops and one nonunion shop of stevedores ready to take on the work.
A $2.5 million crane that the port bought two years ago would enable it to handle containers right away, but port officials acknowledge they need new docks and infrastructure to handle the level of traffic they want.
Hence, there are hundreds of millions of dollars worth of dreams on the drawing board, such as dredging 8 miles of the Brownsville Ship Channel to allow bigger ships.
After 20 years of talk, officials say an international port-to-rail bridge could get under way at any time -- providing there's the long-sought agreement with Mexico.
Today(8/2/03), U.S. Rep. Solomon ORTIZ, D-Corpus Christi, is to travel with the Mexican port officials to Hong Kong and mainland China in hopes of luring CHINA SHIPPING HOLDING CO., one of the largest shipping agencies in China.
"This is a very important company that's willing to give this a try," Ortiz said. "If we can open this door from Manzanillo to Brownsville, this is a new beginning of a lot of freight coming in through Brownsville."
There was a nice 5 earthquake right on the proposed route in the west of Alaska about a month ago. Usually it is very quiet over there.