Proposed Russian Road That Would Connect Britain to America

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wdcrft63

#25
November 11, 2015, 06:42:31 PM  
What Russia needs, and could build, is a road connecting Irkutsk to Vladivostok along the route of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. They've had a century to build that road, and it's not done.

cpzilliacus

#26
November 12, 2015, 10:20:29 AM  
Quote from: wdcrft63 on November 11, 2015, 06:42:31 PM
What Russia needs, and could build, is a road connecting Irkutsk to Vladivostok along the route of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. They've had a century to build that road, and it's not done.

Highway construction was never much of a priority for the Communists that ruled Russia for most of the 20th Century.
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silverback1065

#27
November 12, 2015, 11:14:32 AM  
this will never happen, due to politics

vdeane

#28
November 12, 2015, 01:03:56 PM  
Quote from: wdcrft63 on November 11, 2015, 06:42:31 PM
What Russia needs, and could build, is a road connecting Irkutsk to Vladivostok along the route of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. They've had a century to build that road, and it's not done.
According to Google Maps, there's already a road connecting those two cities.  They even have street view of it (for example, here).  Or is there more than one of those cities?
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english si

#29
November 12, 2015, 03:04:47 PM  
Quote from: vdeane on November 12, 2015, 01:03:56 PMAccording to Google Maps, there's already a road connecting those two cities.
Also true in the real world, not just Google Maps.

Brandon

#30
November 13, 2015, 07:28:55 AM  
Quote from: english si on November 12, 2015, 03:04:47 PM
Quote from: vdeane on November 12, 2015, 01:03:56 PMAccording to Google Maps, there's already a road connecting those two cities.
Also true in the real world, not just Google Maps.

I read an article somewhere (forget exactly where) that people bring used Japanese vehicles westward for sale using that road.
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wdcrft63

#31
November 13, 2015, 06:47:16 PM  
Quote from: vdeane on November 12, 2015, 01:03:56 PM
Quote from: wdcrft63 on November 11, 2015, 06:42:31 PM
What Russia needs, and could build, is a road connecting Irkutsk to Vladivostok along the route of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. They've had a century to build that road, and it's not done.
According to Google Maps, there's already a road connecting those two cities.  They even have street view of it (for example, here).  Or is there more than one of those cities?

Apparently this is correct. The long gap on the M58 highway through eastern Siberia is now reported to be paved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R297_highway_%28Russia%29

dzlsabe

#32
November 26, 2015, 11:25:08 AM   Last Edit: November 26, 2015, 11:27:33 AM by dzlsabe
While were waiting or to test viability, why not consider drive on/off car/truck/train ferries? Im sure the Bering Strait is brutal some months, but how brutal and what months?
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oscar

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November 26, 2015, 12:12:02 PM   Last Edit: November 26, 2015, 01:34:46 PM by oscar
Quote from: dzlsabe on November 26, 2015, 11:25:08 AM
While were waiting or to test viability, why not consider drive on/off car/truck/train ferries? Im sure the Bering Strait is brutal some months, but how brutal and what months?

That'd be a ferry to nowhere, as things now stand. You'd need to build hundreds or even thousands of miles of approach roads or railroads, through unpopulated areas and hostile environments, for any such ferry to connect to anywhere on the continuous Russian and North American highway or rail networks. Just crossing the Bering Strait might be the easy part.

I'll let others figure out how much of the year sea ice in the Bering area would be a problem. Ice blocks shipping to nearby Nome much of the year. As mentioned elsewhere on this forum, one year a Russian icebreaker had to help clear a path for Nome's last fuel barge of the season when the ocean froze up too soon.
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Plutonic Panda

#34
September 02, 2025, 10:14:25 PM  
Pretty much near zero percent chance this happens but its fun to think about Trump mentioned this project during some talking point he made in the Russia-Ukraine negotiations, which need not to be focused on to prevent this from getting political. I don't see this happening anytime soon but it would be cool if the conflict was solved and this project was a result of that. Just fun to think about.

NE2

#35
September 02, 2025, 11:56:26 PM  
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#36
Today at 12:37:41 AM  
FritzOwl suddenly re-emerges last week and now his famous Bering Strait Interstate gets a bump?  Conspiracy or just "plans?"  I think this is needed...

Plutonic Panda

#37
Today at 12:52:17 AM  
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on Today at 12:37:41 AMFritzOwl suddenly re-emerges last week and now his famous Bering Strait Interstate gets a bump?  Conspiracy or just "plans?"  I think this is needed...
I've always been a fan of this concept knowing as soon as I saw it how unlikely it is to happen but who's to say it'll never happen? Maybe with sea level rise the project will not be feasible but just like the Darian Gap it remains an infrastructure project people laugh at. Besides NE2's typical replies you want to compare something like this that has been discussed by leaders for decades to Fritzowls intercontinental interstate plans that have things like turning US-50 into a full fledged interstate? Give me a fucking break.

I've always thought it'd be cool to see a highway connecting through the Caribbean from Florida to Venezuela but I don't go around posting it because it's nonsense. This project isn't that. It's unlikely to happen for a myriad of reasons, sure.

Plutonic Panda

#38
Today at 12:53:38 AM  
Also seems like it would as serious enough not to be moved to fictional for as long as this thread has been here for one reason or another but now all the sudden it's Fritzowl territory.

Max Rockatansky

#39
Today at 01:17:33 AM  
Fritz has on/off talked about this Bering Strait Interstate for years.  The last iteration also had a branching route to North Korea.

Either way, probably no real need to dredge this back up from 2015.

Plutonic Panda

#40
Today at 01:28:04 AM  
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on Today at 01:17:33 AMFritz has on/off talked about this Bering Strait Interstate for years.  The last iteration also had a branching route to North Korea.

Either way, probably no real need to dredge this back up from 2015.
Haha well I think I'm a little far off from running an interstate to North Korea. Either way what's the big deal about bringing this up?
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