look at what china wants to do

[Oliver88]

This railway/tunnel through the Bearing Strait looks like a great idea.
This would be great news for Western Canadian grain, potash, oil, uranium exporters.

Hopefully China, Russia, USA, Canada and others all get on board with this.

Maybe a pipeline for oil beside the tracks could also be built??

[Hopperbin]

Justed looked at a globe and realized one can almost draw a straight line from western canadian farmland into china over land through that straight. Immagine the running rights and amount of rail companies that could use the lines. Could we actually have a freight advantage? What kind of terrain involved?

[dmlfarmer]

A rail link through the Bering Strait has been proposed for over a century by many people. Technically it is feasible. It is the massive cost that is preventing it. But that hurdle may be overcome by China's willingness to invest in infrastructure. Russia is also on board for rail infrastructure investment to open up Siberia. North America needs more rail primarily to move goods to and from Asia. Why go to port when we could go right to Asia?

More importantly, a transportation corridor overland could include highway and pipelines all in one package.

A cooperative project between NA, China, Russia, Korea, and Japan would do more for world peace than all the trade talks and peace talks.

Most importantly, the potential stimulus of this could pull us out of the continuing economic slump just as WWII war industries did from the 30's.
And the economic benefits that result from this would last for decades after the rail is completed.

[bucket]

Providing some group of terrorists or an earthquake didn't blow it up.

I agree it would do more good than any war effort to date.

[hedgehog]

The channel tunnel was the worst thing ever for british farming.
cheap fresh produce pours in at previously impossible levels .
stormy weather problems for ferries used to keep milk and other perishables out, not to mention the unwanted people inside the containers.