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Drive from Europe to the U.S.? Russia proposes world's greatest superhighway



(CNN)London to New York City by car?

It could happen if the head of Russian Railways has his way.

According to a March 23 report in The Siberian Times, Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin has proposed a plan for a massive trans-Siberian highway that would link his country's eastern border with the U.S. state of Alaska, crossing a narrow stretch of the Bering Sea that separates Asia and North America.

The scheme was unveiled at a meeting of the Moscow-based Russian Academy of Science.

Dubbed the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development (TEPR), the project calls for a major roadway to be constructed alongside the existing Trans-Siberian Railway, along with a new train network and oil and gas pipelines.

"This is an inter-state, inter-civilization, project," the Siberian Times quoted Yakunin. "The project should be turned into a world 'future zone,' and it must be based on leading, not catching, technologies."

"Are we there yet?"
The road would run across the entirety of Russia, linking with existing road systems in Western Europe and Asia.

The distance between Russia's western and eastern borders is roughly 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles).

Yakunin said the road would connect Russia with North America via Russia's far eastern Chukotka region, across the Bering Strait and into Alaska's Seward Peninsula.

The road would likely enter Alaska some distance north of the town of Nome, where the famed Iditarod sled dog race ends.

There is more read all about it here
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/24/travel/trans-siberian-road/
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That's what we need.
A high speed rail for Putin to bring his tanks and 'little green men' to the USA.     ;D

I hope Obummer does not hear about it.  He will likely approve it by executive order.
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That's what we need.
A high speed rail for Putin to bring his tanks and 'little green men' to the USA.     ;D

I hope Obummer does not hear about it.  He will likely approve it by executive order.

I wouldn't be too worried about it. US tanks and little green men could
travel the same highway. The worry would be that Obama would leave
it unwatched or something.

Who would want a to get on a Russian train flying along at 30 mph?
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Funny thing.  They can't even get permission for the Southern Route of the European Oil Pipeline.  Can't imagine people would be too receptive to anything Russia proposes these days.
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If someone normal was President in DC and Moscow, this would be an awesome idea.

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If someone normal was President in DC and Moscow, this would be an awesome idea.

I am beginning to feel we have two dickheads.  Perhaps we should put both of them on the same t-shirt.
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Yet another pipedream by the clueless.

 It'd take multi trillions of dollars that no one has. Just the US section from Fairbanks to Nome would take many years to get permits to cross the Federal land. And then there's the bridge, across some or the roughest areas of the North Pacific Ice choked in the winter and gale force winds anytime.

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You're right.

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I am beginning to feel we have two dickheads.  Perhaps we should put both of them on the same t-shirt.

The princess and the cannibal?

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I hear also of new airport for pigs, if this happens we will need such an airport,
as it will happen about the same time pigs can fly  :P
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Yet another pipedream by the clueless.

 It'd take multi trillions of dollars that no one has. Just the US section from Fairbanks to Nome would take many years to get permits to cross the Federal land. And then there's the bridge, across some or the roughest areas of the North Pacific Ice choked in the winter and gale force winds anytime.

And we all know that there is a HUGE population base in both Nome
and far Eastern Siberia to justify building this highway/rail/pipeline
to fly across the land in a high speed Russian train screaming along
at 34 mph with the toilets dumping poop on the tracks, it would only
take 15 hours to travel the 510 miles from Nome to Fairbanks using
Russian Siberian trains that which wouldn't fit on American tracks.

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Isn't that the way they do things in North Dakota?
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Isn't that the way they do things in North Dakota?


In Norf Dekody, the trains go faster and we don't poop on the tracks.
We poop in a bag, put it outside to freeze then throw it away.

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I feel honour bound to defend Russia on the pooping on the tracks issue.  :D

Bill, we do not poop on the tracks--it falls from the trains onto the wooden ties, but (hopefully) never on the metal tracks. Also, we close down the toilets when about an hour from a city so that we're pooping in the countryside, but not within an hour of civilization. If you wake up in the morning and the train is approaching a town, you'll have to hold it--or pee in a cup, but that is to be expected. It builds character.

However, and this really goes against Russian tradition, the government has decided that pooping in the countryside is not all that attractive, and so trains are being retrofitted with septic tanks which are then pumped at stations along the way. It won't be long and we'll be pining for the good ole days, telling our grandkids spellbinding tales of those wonderful days when we pooped on the tracks wooden ties as our trains raced across the Siberian steppes.
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Don't trains in Mexico or Africa have septic tanks?

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I feel honour bound to defend Russia on the pooping on the tracks issue.  :D

Bill, we do not poop on the tracks--it falls from the trains onto the wooden ties, but (hopefully) never on the metal tracks.

I feel reassured now 
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There's an old American Jazz Age song that goes:

Passengers will please refrain
from Flushing toilets in the train
While the train is in the station - Darling I love you.
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