Drive from EU to US? Russia proposes world's greatest superhighway

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Russia’s getting creative and ambitious. Hot on the heels of recent plans for a supersonic, electric-powered plane with a 200-tonne payload, and 1,200mph speeds comes a new idea ? a road which could, in theory, take you from London to New York. The chief of Russian Railways has proposed building a trans-Siberian highway which would cross the Bering Sea to Alaska. The report, published this week, doesn’t specify how the road would cross the sea, but does state that the ...