Tunnel to be built from Russia to USA

So from Alaska to Russia.. Why do I feel like this will not be utilized to the degree that its technological scope merits?

Also it's not clear what this tunnel would be used for. Industry or travel?

i think its balzy, i dont see why we need it when we should just make it a big zip line .instead

When you stand at the US end of this tunnel you will be able to hear that "giant sucking sound" so commonn near the mexican border. Kind of like a giant sea shell.

This seems unnecessary. We as humans have to get over the "because we can" mentality. There are many other ways 60 billion dollars could be spent to help the world today. I am sure there are some hungry, uninsured people at either end of that proposed tunnel.

How about a bullet train connecting LA and SF first...or LA to NY.

LA to SF? Selfish! LA to NY would be better.

This tunnel sounds like a waste of time and money, unless it's to be used for industrial purposes.

Yaaay Siberia.

Im all for the SF to LA bullet train

If a huge, energy-efficient train runs through it - maybe. NOT autos and especially not trucks!

I don't see the point. It would be one thing if it went from New York to Paris, but if you're traveling from the contiguous U.S. to Russia, you'll still have to make it to Alaska somehow. It would be more practical just to fly straight to Russia.

It would provide a direct land route to the US for trucks carrying manufactured goods from China.

Proposed name: Sam Walton Expressway

maybe it will be used to transport those disgruntled protesters in the US to Siberia.

This is incredible. Hopefully with this tunnel relations between us will be a bit better. And I definitely think commerce will jump significantly.

This is a good idea?

um, the article doesn't give a definate build date. The headline makes it seem like it will happen tomorrow.

Plus, we can't even handle Mexico, how in the world will "Homeland Security" handle Russia?

I seriously doubt that Homeland Security would make it any easier for anyone to come into our country. (This is another topic in itself.)

Plus, I agree with a lot of the other posters: that money can go to a lot of other causes within our own country first, dammit (Janet).

Creating this tunnel in one of the world's most earthquake-prone regions is totally insane.

While this is cool in theory I don't think it is the best use of time or finances. Within the Bay Area there are way too many places you can't get to easily using public transportation, let alone in the state of California or the Nation. If the government is set on building a bullet train then why not start within the country. It would certainly ease a lot of pain caused by increasing flight cancellations and costs with the airlines.

maybe we could get together and use the tunnel to ship the US government off to Siberia?

Who would even cross this tunnel? Is there enough traffic across the strait now to justify such construction of a mega project? Why not help the current traffic problems in our huge cities rather than in the middle of nowhere?

Although I guess it's fair to assume some kind of cooperative financing of this project between Russia and the States, governments across the world need to prioritise. strengthened international relations - fine. An enhanced global economy - great. However surely a government’s primary responsibilities lay on its own soil? Even with shared financial responsibility, 60 billion dollars? I just watched the pod by zach_pentel and zeekarone: ‘Who’s rebuilding New Orleans?’
60 billion dollars? Why isn’t the government doing it?

60 Mill, hello!!!!!!!!!!!!! world poverty

What loonies are behind this one? I can't imagine spending that much money for this project when we can't take care of the roads, tunnels, bridges, etc. that we have now.
It would take nerves of steel to make the trip if the thing was ever actually built. There are people that can't drive over the Delaware Bay Bridge because they get too phobic. Can you imagine this? An hour or two under the ocean! I have a difficult time drving through the tunnels in PA on their turnpike.

I believe seeker561's got it right.

there r alot of needy people out there but a tunnel would be good to help connect 2 great nations

Who's to say it already isn't there, maybe that's a cover story to do maintenance work on it. But at any rate this would be a dream come true for NATO Russian and Chinese army soldiers. some are already here, they will use this to bring over China's and Russia's army to invade America for a period of 6 - 7 months. I don't like it, we have become too trusting of foreign nations, and they are going to attack and when they do everybody will fall for it... more than they did 9-11..when really those in power are plotting this whole thing just to introduce martial law and the end of America as we know it with the beast government.

Don't worry Bill Gates will pay for it.

Good idea! Lets spend 60 bilion to connect a froze, low populated US area with a Russian, frozen, low populated land. Solid.

Only an hour? one hour to travel under an entire ocean? It's an interesting thought, but I'd want to hear about this from a more reliable source.

this may not be good because it will cause a high amonut of attention to illegal immagrants from a diffrent region beside the mexico usa border...whats next there will be a tunnel from the usa to europe ..then a tunnel from africa to the usa..then no one would be really using boats anymore...this also can increase terrorist interest in new targets such as a underwater tunnel that would drown any1 whose there if an explosion occurs

Let's see now...a 60 Billion dollar estimate will, most likely, end up a 120 Billion dollar reality. Would someone of a higher intellect please explain to me how this is anything other than a horribly wasteful proposition?

now now people..

you have to think ahead.. instead of using 60 billion dollars towards environmental protection or alternative fuel and research, you invest in a massive industrial project that will not only fatten the pockets NOW.. but as the environment continues to experience accelerated warming and arctic breakdown, more and more nonrenewable natural reserves become attainable thereby rendering that area even more strategic in the process..

the arctic ice is disappearing folks.. more and more ships are becoming able to navigate in those waters as we speak.. (so to speak.. err.. type)

could end up being another $24 manhattan.. you never know..

peace

63-miles covers that whole intercontinental distance? then again "Russia is MASSIVE" as Amy-Louise Jones recently exclaimed.

Interesting idea. Back before the former CPSU of the USSR collapsed, leaving the 14 Republics of the former USSR in temporary disarray, there was a tripple-decker bridge across the Bearing Strait proposed by the same firm that designed the bridge that now spans the mouth of the Mediterranean, which connects Spain and Africa. I saw pictures of the proposed bridge that was expected to be built across the Bearing Strait, and I might add it was really something else. The cost of this tunnel? It is roughly 1/50th the price tag of all the money wasted on this illegal invasion and occupation of the nation of Iraq.

You'd think that with the depletion of Earth's oil, there'd be plenty of unused tunnels. Hmmm.

I see connecting the two continents with a tunnel or a bridge as a positive step toward building stronger economic ties and trade.

Also with the north heating up, it could open the door to a lot of eco-tourism in those outer areas.

I know SO many people who visit Alaska and are always like, "man I wish there was a bridge to Russia, dude."

Wait. Nope. I don't know any actually.

I hope it'll be used for travel. I just recently came back from Russia, It took close to 15 hours to get there and It was a non-stop flight. Another 7 hr charter flight to Irkutsk Siberia and another 6 hr ride by bus into the town of Ulan-Ude Buryatiya so an overall agonizing 28 hr trip! Oh how much joy it would bring me to be able to travel to Russia in an hour! OMG!!!!!! I feel like Dexter, the mad wiz kid, Build,Build i tell you, Build! Yesss Build!!!! Muahahaahah Muahahaha!!!

this will be an easier for the hate groups and terrorist to travel to and from their countries.

Good luck but its not healthy for us.

I say we shouldn't build it. The first truck through would likely be an Exxon tanker truck carrying oil from the North Slope to higher Soviet bidders in Siberia. They would hire a pothead as a driver and the tunnel would have its first oil spill while we would get stuck with the bill to clean it all up.

doubt it. its far more cost effective to just ship it on oil tankers or through pipelines