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It would make the ultimate road trip.
Melissa Locker
April 20, 2016
The United States is filled with opportunities for incredible road trips, whether it is driving along America's Most Scenic Roads, taking a slow ride down a winding road in wintertime, or going for a springtime ramble. But even America’s best road trips pale in comparison to a proposed super-highway that would connect London to New York by way of Russia and Alaska.
The plan comes from Vladimir Yakunin, the head of the Russian Railways, who proposed the idea for the so-called trans-Siberian highway at the Russian Academy of Science annual meeting last year, according to CNN. If Yakunin’s still-hypothetical plan came to be, it would result in a roughly 13,000-mile-long highway that would span the globe.
The road would start in London and run across Western Europe, before moving into Russia. There it would run 6,200 miles across Western Russia through Siberia, along what Yakunin has dubbed the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development (TEPR), a major roadway to be constructed alongside the existing Trans-Siberian Railway.Drivers would then cross a 55-mile long stretch of the Bering Strait (bridge and/or tunnel plans are still TBD) and into Nome, Alaska, home of the Iditarod dog sled race. Currently there is no road that connects Nome to Fairbanks. (When asked, Google Maps distressingly notes, “Sorry, we could not calculate driving directions from "Nome, AK" to "Fairbanks, AK.”)
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