Rail or road to America via the channel tunnel

An ambitious 12,400-mile trans-Eurasian road and rail connection between the Atlantic and Pacific is being considered by Russian authorities.

Rail or road

The vast motorway would connect and improve upon existing road networks across Russia and make possible an overland car trip from Britain to America via the Channel Tunnel.

Alongside the super highway would run a new high-speed railway line as well as gas and oil pipelines.

It is likely the road, railway and pipeline would pass through cities such Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk and Vladivostok.

Planners presented the scheme to the Russian Academy of Science, claiming it will make Russia a global transportation hub and boost tourism.

Vladimir Fortov, the Head of the Russian Academy of Science, said:"The idea is that basing on the new technology of high-speed rail transport we can build a new railway near the Trans-Siberian Railway, with the opportunity to go to Chukotka and Bering Strait and then to the American continent."

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