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

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