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Russian Official Proposes Road That Could Connect London To NYC
An anonymous reader writes There's great news coming out of Russia for epic road trip lovers. Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin has proposed building a highway that would reach from London to Alaska via Russia, a 13,000-mile stretch of road. "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."
It's a nifty idea, but the major problem is that it would have to go through Russia.
Actually, they may even have the money. They just have to put Yakunin in jail and get back what he stole -- for himself, and for his boss. http://navalny-en.livejournal....
Russian roads across the bulk of the country are shit. And they haven't even built a decent interstate system going across the country. And they can't even properly maintain the shit roads they already have. And the country is NOTORIOUS for intentional accident scams (why do you think that they have those dash cams?). And a sizable percentage of drivers there are drunk and/or crazy.
In short, who the fuck would want to drive across Russia if the alternative of even a slow boat is available?
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
... and they're talking about bridging Alaska and Siberia....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Highway
Great idea. We definitely need 13,000 miles of this.
No one is going to get involved in a big project like that unless they're comfortable with the Russians remaining reasonable.
We're not seeing that. So... yet again, russia is fucking themselves out of fiancial opportunities.
Think of where Russia is... the land. It is extremely valuable. And do they use it effectively? Are trains running from China to Europe over Russian rail? Not really. Everyone bypasses them because they're too crazy and stupid to realize that their behavior damns them to being a backwater even though they're in the fucking middle of everything.
We trust the fucking Saudis more than we trust the Russians... and they are basically funding most of the crazy terrorism we're dealing with. That's how little we trust the Russians.
And amongst that, the Russians want to know if we want to build an expensive road through their territory? Why would we do that? That would just give them leverage. They already give us shit about the generally meaningless space launches. They try and exert leverage everywhere. Especially where it is extremely stupid to do it.
I'd love for the Russians to not be fucking retards. I really would. I'd love for us all to be happy hands across the universe. But who is holding their breath for that to happen?
Till then... what evhs.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
Generally, this is exactly what Russians really propose: pay us to fix our roads so you can, sometimes, having a lot of money and time, drive on them. The whole "proposal" consists of roads that currently exist. Outside Russia, they are even in a good state.