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

  • 26-03-2015 6:47pm
    #1
    Baked.noodle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭


    Just thought this might be of interest. Grand idea I think. Wonder if I will get to drive something like this in my lifetime.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/24/travel/trans-siberian-road/
    Route as roughly interpreted by CNN. The proposed plan for a massive trans-Siberian highway would link Russia's eastern border with the U.S. state of Alaska.

    150325102725-trans-siberian-road-map-exlarge-169.png

    Edit: Just noticed I should have posted this in the Travel forum. Sorry.


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  • #2
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    Considering you can't drive from Nome to Fairbanks at present, nor from London to France, this seems a bit like a tunnel from Ireland to Britain - far fetched crayonism


  • #3
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,608 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    There's no way this is happening with the current political situation anyway


  • #4
    Rawr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭Rawr


    L1011 wrote: »
    There's no way this is happening with the current political situation anyway

    True.

    Also recently I watched an episode of Dangerous Roads which covered a section of the main Siberian Highway. Even the recently upgraded parts of it we're treacherous and winter conditions are so incredibly cold that you cannot turn the engine off unless you are parked in a heated garage.

    Doesn't really seem to be a good idea :/


  • #5
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Who wants to drive those distances. Logistical nightmare. Fuel costs, food, accomodation, hazardous terrain. Hugely unpredictable journey times. It sound like a pipe dream from a different era altogether. Stick the cargo on a ship same as others would do, if it is urgent airfreight it.


  • #6
    cgcsb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,272 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    I don't think anyone would make the journey by car, in terms of route length there is a large stretch where there are hardly any significant population centres. In fact between Western Russian and Southern Canada there's hardly a soul. A journey bar would take several day/weeks. If a similar high speed rail could make the journey within 48 hours at a cost lower than flying it might be worth it.


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  • #7
    Dom84
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭Dom84


    Have a look at Ewan McGregor's Long way round. He does that trip. Parts of Russia are are almost complete no go areas.


  • #8
    Polar101
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭Polar101


    Dom84 wrote: »
    Have a look at Ewan McGregor's Long way round. He does that trip. Parts of Russia are are almost complete no go areas.

    If they had done a bit of research, they could have avoided the floods, though. But yeah, I agree anyway.


  • #9
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    Polar101 wrote: »
    If they had done a bit of research, they could have avoided the floods, though. But yeah, I agree anyway.

    I would imagine that they did the research, that's how they found the floods?


  • #10
    Cen taurus
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Cen taurus


    I see the armchair naysayers and war lovers are out in force already.


  • #11
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Cen taurus wrote: »
    I see the armchair naysayers and war lovers are out in force already.

    Enlighten us to the huge opportunity in my midst.


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  • #12
    MGWR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭MGWR


    Greenmachine wrote: »
    Who wants to drive those distances. Logistical nightmare. Fuel costs, food, accommodation, hazardous terrain. Hugely unpredictable journey times. It sound like a pipe dream from a different era altogether. Stick the cargo on a ship same as others would do, if it is urgent airfreight it.
    Loads of people would like to attempt to drive such distances. But the logistics of building such a road, especially through impossibly dangerous terrain (aside from permafrost and tundra, parts of the route are directly on the Ring of Fire, very volcanically active regions) are the main barrier rather than food/fuel availability (some people would carry extra storage and/or fuel in a trailer or tender, for example; or might even own/hire a mobile home or caravan thus bringing their accommodations along), and for such a journey, what one may term as "reliable" is according to one's personal whim.

    Does not seem very logical for a trucking route, to be sure, no matter how many way stations one would plan for it.


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