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Russia unveils plans for high speed railway and superhighway to connect
Europe and America

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   Russia's fledging high speed rail network currently connects St
   Petersburg and Moscow ( Creative Commons )

   Plans for a new high-speed transport corridor that could potentially
   link London and New York by rail and superhighway have been unveiled.

   The idea, dubbed the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development (TERP), would see
   a high speed railway and motorway built from Eastern Europe, across
   Siberia and over the Bering Strait to Alaska.

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   national political figure, set out to transform a loose collection of
   suburban cities and rural land into a unified metropolis. Massive
   investment went into high-speed roads and rails to unite the
   doughnut-shaped city, while broadband advances coupled with a
   Knowledge-Bridge project has driven industry-university collaboration
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   national political figure, set out to transform a loose collection of
   suburban cities and rural land into a unified metropolis. Massive
   investment went into high-speed roads and rails to unite the
   doughnut-shaped city, while broadband advances coupled with a
   Knowledge-Bridge project has driven industry-university collaboration
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   In Eastern Europe the European Union is separately drawing up plans for
   a high speed rail corridor to connect the Baltic states to Western
   Europe’s high speed rail network – which runs through the Channel
   Tunnel to London.

   North American passenger railways are comparative undeveloped, however.
   Plans drawn up by President Obama to develop high speed rail corridors
   across the United States have stalled amid opposition.

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   China and Russia also unveiled a separate plan last year to connect
   Moscow and Beijing by high speed rail, as well as a plan for a
   continent-spanning rail network that could cross the Bering Strait.

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   Russia's fledging high speed rail network currently connects St
   Petersburg and Moscow
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