It’s time to start planning the mother of all road trips. Russia is planning to build a 64 mile tunnel to link to Alaska. Great googely moogely.
The project, which Russia is coordinating with the U.S. and Canada, would take 10 to 15 years to complete… [T]he tunnel… at 64 miles will be more than twice as long as the underwater section of the Channel Tunnel between the U.K. and France, according to the plan…
The Bering Strait tunnel will cost $10 billion to $12 billion.
By 10-15 years and $10 to $12 billion, I assume they actually meant 20-25 years and $20 to $25 billion.
So who’s got some vacation retirement time in 2032?
What’s ridiculous about that is that there’s nowhere to go after crossing the strait. As I wrote about recently, the road network in the bulk of eastern Russia long ago ceased to exist. In part, that’s because nobody lives there. There are virtually no cities, and very few towns. The cost of maintaining a road (to say nothing of a road network) spanning the world’s largest country to get from Moscow to nowhere at all just doesn’t make any sense.