7 ms·
That article is four years old. The project was greenlighted by the Kremlin last week, according to this: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3764606/Pla
by timf 15y ago
That article is four years old. The project was greenlighted by the Kremlin last week, according to this: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3764606/Plans-for-Russia-NYC-train-link.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3764606/Plans-for-...
- aasarava 15y agoThe project may have been blessed by some official at the Kremlin, but no doubt it would need to be approved -- and even partly financed -- by the US and Alaskan governments to actually happen. It would be nice if reporters even bothered to ask if anyone in office on this side of the ocean had even heard of the Kremlin's renewed interest in this. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44212283/ns/world_news-europe/ http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44212283/ns/world_news-europe/
- gritzko 15y agoA regional news agency says the project is in "research stage", not greenlighted yet. http://vostokmedia.com/n113027.html http://vostokmedia.com/n113027.html
- mbreese 15y agoFunny, it used to be a $65B project (The Times, 4 years ago)... now it's a $100B project (The Sun, this week).
- Anechoic 15y agoThat doesn't sound too surprising based on the typical price of construction materials between then and now, (oil for example has increased by about 35% since then). There may have also been project changes and/or additions that also contributed to the higher estimate.
- avree 15y agoBased off rising cost of materials and inflation, that sounds about right.
- maxxxxx 15y agoWait until it's done. It will be 200 or more.
- hessenwolf 15y agoHonestly, 500 is more likely.
- nkassis 15y agoProbably likely once American engineers look at the plan.
- tententwenty 15y agoBut Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house?