Buy a big drill, and everyone starts thinking you're going to dig a tunnel between two continents. That's what happened to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich after he handed over $160 million for the biggest drill in the world.
We've been drooling over the idea of a US to Russia road trip ever since rumors began about the Bering Strait tunnel project a year ago. When Abramovich bought a massive drill last week, well, the rumors really started heating up.
But don't go booking your rental cars just yet. Apparently the real story is something closer to doing some infrastructure works around Sochi on the Black Sea, which will host the 2014 Winter Olympics. Nice, but nowhere near as exciting as a tunnel joining Russia and the United States. Perhaps we'll have to dig it ourselves.
The car rental weasels are so against this, it ain't even funny! If there's anywhere in the country tourists should be tempted into submitting themselves to a beating from, say, Hertz, it's Los Angeles, where a car is pretty much required if you want to get around. Lucky for Hertz & co., this won't be happening anytime soonever before the year 2165, so there's plenty of time left for them to make good money at LAX, BUR and LGB.
Leave it to an overachieving Harvard student to solve L.A.'s public transportation problem with a click of his mouse. Damien Goodmon's "Get L.A. Moving" subway system mock-up made the rounds on the internets last fall, and it now has a proper home on the web. Powerpoint presentations and more are available at www.getlamoving.com. You can see Goodmon present the plan in person on Saturday, May 12 in Los Angeles.
How's this for a little arts 'n' crafts project? A proposed tunnel would cross the Bering Strait, connecting Alaska with the Russian Far East. The tunnel would contain a highway, railway, and oil pipelines, as well as fibre-optic cables. Wait a second...does that mean we can get T1 connections at every seat on that undersea train? WiFi? EEK!
On the Russian side, you'd find some of the least explored and spookiest parts of the inhabited world. We're not really sure who would want to stay there, but the point is that this baby would connect you to Asia. San Francisco to Shanghai? What about Santiago to Seoul? The connection may not exist at this point, but even the idea is pure road trip porn. Also, how much would Hertz charge for a rental along that route?
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