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Russian Official Proposes Road That Could Connect London To NYC

Posted by samzenpus on from the use-the-bathroom-before-you-go dept.

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."

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  1. Re:They don't have the funds for that also that pa by siddesu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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....

  2. So with Russia still under sanctionsq by silentcoder · · Score: 4, Funny

    The US would of course have to block the road where it hits NYC to prevent trade with them... leading to a 13-thousand mile traffic jam ?

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  3. Re:Cool idea with a problem by thedonger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a nifty idea, but the major problem is that it would have to go through Russia.

    I'm sure buried somewhere in an engineering spec is the requirement that it support a weight that coincidentally is the same as that of a Russian tank division.

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  4. Re:Bloody Hell! by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Great idea. We definitely need 13,000 miles of this.

  5. prepare for unforeseen compliactions by nimbius · · Score: 4, Funny

    some things we may not have considered:
    1. Having to learn the phrase "can i have the key to the bathroom" in 7 languages.
    2. understanding, yet never being entirely certain, when left or right lane driving applies but being totally sure your wife is probably wrong.
    3. switching road trip snacks from potato chips, to Kotlety, to pea pats, to landjager, and finally back to potato chips but now you have to call them crisps while youre stuck in gridlock piccadilly traffic.
    4. having to keep multiple bribe currencies for various checkpoints and rolling infractions.
    5. The phrasebook doesnt have anything to get hungarian insurance scammers off the bonnet of your car at 3 am
    6. GPS may not be capable of routing you safely around a drunken and somewhat bloated Jeremy Clarkson as he hurls homophobic remarks at you from the doorway of a run down pub in leeds.

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  6. Sounds like fun but... by Drakker · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think they played way too much Ticket to Ride. There's no bonus points for the longest route in real life.