Road trip anyone?

[scooter]

London to New York via a Soviet Russian proposed interncontinental highway.  Make for one helluva road trip.  And I wonder how tags, insurance, moving violations, and licenses would work for that...

[rickshaw]

How the world thinks this superhighway will look:



How the Russians know this superhighway will look:

[Librarian]

Get the Chinese to build it. That road running through Africa looked incredible on (Not So) Top Gear. I know I'm alone here but I always preferred May and Hamster...I've met too many Clarksons over the years to be too keen.

[lenny100]

bst quote i read was the "uk section will not be ready for 20 years after the rest of the build and at 4 times the cost of the rest of the road combined"

[Nick]

Why do I suspect the first and most likely to be built part is between Berlin and Moscow? It only really needs upgrading to a full-blown 4 lane highway and it'd be more realistic to build a High-Speed Railway 

Beyond Moscow to the Bering Strait is mostly dirt tracks and forest. The highway from Alaska down thru Canada to the USA main is only just a sealed roadway which freezes over 5 months a year.

[scooter]

And there are no roads out to Nome, which is another obstacle

[Captain Canada]

That would be pretty cool. I'm in ....and I'll bring the snacks !

[NARSES2]

And there are no roads out to Nome, which is another obstacle

Yup when I was in Alaska I was quite surprised that there were roads that went into the interior and then stopped. Didn't expect that in the US for some reason. Expected a highway down the length of the coast or interior.

One US Customs post on the Canadian border we came across had a video camera for when unmanned. Notice said "When unmanned please stand behind the yellow line and wait to be photographed. Once done you may enter the United States" I assume if they didn't like the look of you they trawled the towns bars and then threw you out 

[kerick]

Perma frost is the biggest problem. Far enough north and you build on ice and have a road for most of the year.

[McColm]

Ice Road Trucker and Bush Truckers could be used. Those back roads in Australia seem impossible and yet they get through!

[scooter]

On a similar vein, apparently a company is putting out feelers on a trans-Atlantic ferry service.  How do I know this?  I got a survey in my email from the Family Motor Coaching Assoc., a national caravaning group, asking about it.  It'd definitely make my showing up at Telford interesting

[McColm]

Caravaning never tried that. Just add that to my "bucket list".