[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by THE BIG APPLE

China is the largest exporter of goods on earth. Currently it takes a cargo ship 30+ days to haul exported goods from China to America via the Pacific Ocean. This project would help world trade tremendously. It would only take 19 hours for a high speed train to haul exported goods from Beijing to Vancouver, if this road is constructed.

30 days via ship VS 19 hours (about 1 day) via the Bering Route

China would benefit from this project more than any country (and would have to pay its fair share in construction and maintenance along with other Asian and European countries). Oil tankers transporting oil via the Pacific also take months, while a pipe line will also be constructed in a separate tunnel in this project, allowing endless oil for the entire world and eliminating the need for cargo ships. This isn't just a road connecting two countries, this is a World Road, a new Silk Road for the 21st Century.


America is paying $5 Billion for a wall, from American tax payer dollars (later to be repayed by Mexico through a renegotiated trade deal, and complete halt of illegal immigration).

America is not paying $20 Billion for this road. They are paying a few million. Russia is paying a few million, and so is Canada, China, Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, France, Germany, Ireland, England and so on. All these countries have to chip in a few million to reach the $20 Billion needed.

This is not an American road that only America has to pay for.
This is not a Canadian road than only Canada has to pay for.
This is not a Russian road than only Russia had to pay for.

This is a WORLD road that the world will collectively pay for.

You can do your part by signing the petition.

Wait, so now you're claiming that the entire "road" will cost $20 billion? It was a big enough stretch if it was only the crossing but the entire crossing including the road or railroad is preposterous. In the most recent highspeed rail study a 300km/h route between Toronto and Montreal was estimated to cost $21 billion in 2009 dollars. That route is only about 600km so about $35 million CAD per km, while a route between Vancouver and the Bering Strait is about 3200km, some of it exceptionally remote with extreme terrain and climate. Even if the cost per km was that low it would be $112 billion CAD just to get from Vancouver to the Bering Strait before the cost of the actual crossing.

I'm not saying it isn't a good project but sabotaging it with completely fictitious claims in terms of the cost doesn't do it any favours.