When you question HS2

[Suff]

do you have to wonder about this plan...




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Food for thought.

[KateLMead]

Is this to do with rail transport suff? I am lost!!

[pederito1]

Dosn`t connect to Australia.

[Workingman]

http://newparadigm.schillerinstitute.co ... nd-bridge/

Bunch of dreamers!

[Suff]

Yes Kate, it's a plan for a land interconnected world with only a few places not connected by land. It was envisioned in the 1800's and fails to die even with the massive advances in shipping and air travel. You can still, always, ship more goods by land than by sea or air, for the same price.

Yep, Absolutely WM.

However if you look at the new high speed lines from France to Germany (via Strasbourg) fit into that map. As does the high speed links to London, Amsterdam and Brussels.

So it is going ahead, slowly but surely.

My suspicion is that the EU is fully bought into the whole land bridge thing but in typical EU "mandarin" style, they will not ever own up to it.

There are also rumours that the Qinghai–Tibet Railway is part of the land bridge effort.

It's always interesting

[Suff]

And of course the constant interest in the Bering Strait crossing too.

Not quite as fanciful as we might think. With a decent maglev train system and HDR geothermal power, the world could be a very different place to travel in.