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A Europe–U.S. superhighway proposed by the former president of Russian Railways

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A Europe–U.S. superhighway proposed by the former president of Russian Railways

What is even the point of this? Like, you can already get from Fairbanks to New York, take the Alaska Highway to I-90 to I-80. What would building a highway through Edmonton and Winnipeg accomplish? Shave a day off of shipping something from Perm to NYC by truck?