As bizarre as it sounds, the idea is no more outlandish than the railroad between Siberia, Sakhalin and Japan that will get under way this year, according to Viktor Razbegin, the director of the Russian Center for Regional Transport Projects, the group coordinating both tunnel projects.
Razbegin told the ITAR-TASS news agency that Russian, American, Canadian and French experts have been researching the North America-Southeast Asia transportation link for the past eight years. He revealed that the results of their studies have been submitted to the World Bank and the Russian and U.S. governments. A pact between the two governments is expected to be completed in the near future and will spark new progress in the project that experts say is entirely feasible.
In the case of the railway link between the mainland and Sakhalin Island, no decision has yet been made as to whether the railway will be built in a tunnel under the Tatarskiy Gulf or across a bridge, but the plans for the U.S.-Russia link are confined to building a tunnel, which experts estimate will cost up to $60 billion.
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