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You Will Soon Be Able To Drive From Delhi To New York
September 25, 2015
Let’s cut to the chase and tell you how it is. You will soon be able to drive from Delhi to New York. Yup! All thanks to the most outlandish project ever. And the Russians are doing it. They’re building the longest highway in the world. And by longest we mean it will stretch more than 20,000 km. Just imagine a road trip on it. Called the Trans Eurasian Belt Development, the highway will connect the western most parts of Russia with Siberia in the east and across the Bering Strait to Alaska on the North American continent. But you can drive on it from India!
From Delhi, cross over to Nepal and then to Tibet. Remember any vehicles entering China will need new Chinese registration plates till the time they are in the country. This can be easily arranged though. From there it’s Kyrgystan and then to Kazakhstan. Here you’ll encounter tough road conditions with roads passing through some of the toughest terrain. Kazakhstan borders Russia and once there, you have to join the Trans Siberian Highway. Then drive across the breadth of the nation and cross the Bering Sea on a ship. From there you reach Alaska and drive via Canada to United States.
The plan, unveiled at a meeting at the Russian Academy of Science and presented by the head of Russia Rail Vladimir Yakunin, also calls for a high-speed railway to be built alongside the motorway. Both routes would support new cities and industries created as a result of the construction, the Siberian Times writes.
The development is called the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development (TEPR). That name doesn't sound very catchy, so instead we're going with the International Road of Russia (IRR). If it were really built, it would mean you could drive (with help from the Eurostar and the Panama Canal) from the top of the UK, say Wick in Scotland, to the very bottom of South America, Cape Horn.
Alongside the train track and road, pipelines for oil and gas and new electricity and water supply lines would be put in place. The network would total around 12,400 miles. The aim is to link Asia with Europe as it would run from the Atlantic to the Pacific.Cities most people haven't heard of, such as Yeketerinburg and Irkutsk, would be joined up as a result of the plan.
The road would follow a similar path to the Trans-Siberian railway - but would stretch even further, crossing the Bering Strait to Alaska. It remains unclear what the US would think about that....Russia sees the project as essential to spurring development within the region, the Siberian Times explains.
Yakunin said at the meeting: "This is an inter-state, inter-civilisation, project. It should be an alternative to the current (neo-liberal) model, which has caused a systemic crisis. The project should be turned into a world 'future zone', and it must be based on leading, not catching, technologies."
The Russia Rail chief said he estimates the cost of the new venture would be in the trillions. He argued that the project's economic benefit would outweigh the money spent.
Vladimir Fortov, the Head of the Russian Academy of Science, said the scheme is "very ambitious and expensive," reports the Siberian Times. But he added: "It will solve many problems in the development of the vast region. It is connected with social programs, and new fields, new energy resources, and so on. 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."
The Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia, which runs from Moscow to Vladisvostok and stretches across 6,152 miles. It takes seven days to travel.
The initial finish date is expected around 2020, with the project becoming fully operational in 2030. So there's still time!
(With Inputs From Business Insider)
http://www.indiatimes.com/culture/t...ks-to-the-world’s-longest-highway-245587.html
September 25, 2015
Let’s cut to the chase and tell you how it is. You will soon be able to drive from Delhi to New York. Yup! All thanks to the most outlandish project ever. And the Russians are doing it. They’re building the longest highway in the world. And by longest we mean it will stretch more than 20,000 km. Just imagine a road trip on it. Called the Trans Eurasian Belt Development, the highway will connect the western most parts of Russia with Siberia in the east and across the Bering Strait to Alaska on the North American continent. But you can drive on it from India!
From Delhi, cross over to Nepal and then to Tibet. Remember any vehicles entering China will need new Chinese registration plates till the time they are in the country. This can be easily arranged though. From there it’s Kyrgystan and then to Kazakhstan. Here you’ll encounter tough road conditions with roads passing through some of the toughest terrain. Kazakhstan borders Russia and once there, you have to join the Trans Siberian Highway. Then drive across the breadth of the nation and cross the Bering Sea on a ship. From there you reach Alaska and drive via Canada to United States.
The plan, unveiled at a meeting at the Russian Academy of Science and presented by the head of Russia Rail Vladimir Yakunin, also calls for a high-speed railway to be built alongside the motorway. Both routes would support new cities and industries created as a result of the construction, the Siberian Times writes.
The development is called the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development (TEPR). That name doesn't sound very catchy, so instead we're going with the International Road of Russia (IRR). If it were really built, it would mean you could drive (with help from the Eurostar and the Panama Canal) from the top of the UK, say Wick in Scotland, to the very bottom of South America, Cape Horn.
Alongside the train track and road, pipelines for oil and gas and new electricity and water supply lines would be put in place. The network would total around 12,400 miles. The aim is to link Asia with Europe as it would run from the Atlantic to the Pacific.Cities most people haven't heard of, such as Yeketerinburg and Irkutsk, would be joined up as a result of the plan.
The road would follow a similar path to the Trans-Siberian railway - but would stretch even further, crossing the Bering Strait to Alaska. It remains unclear what the US would think about that....Russia sees the project as essential to spurring development within the region, the Siberian Times explains.
Yakunin said at the meeting: "This is an inter-state, inter-civilisation, project. It should be an alternative to the current (neo-liberal) model, which has caused a systemic crisis. The project should be turned into a world 'future zone', and it must be based on leading, not catching, technologies."
The Russia Rail chief said he estimates the cost of the new venture would be in the trillions. He argued that the project's economic benefit would outweigh the money spent.
Vladimir Fortov, the Head of the Russian Academy of Science, said the scheme is "very ambitious and expensive," reports the Siberian Times. But he added: "It will solve many problems in the development of the vast region. It is connected with social programs, and new fields, new energy resources, and so on. 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."
The Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia, which runs from Moscow to Vladisvostok and stretches across 6,152 miles. It takes seven days to travel.
The initial finish date is expected around 2020, with the project becoming fully operational in 2030. So there's still time!
(With Inputs From Business Insider)
http://www.indiatimes.com/culture/t...ks-to-the-world’s-longest-highway-245587.html
