The March 3 , 1959 edition of Arthur Radebaugh’sCloser Than We Thinkdepicts a highway to Russia , as imagined bySenator Warren G. Magnuson . harmonize toWikipedia , ( the only informant for anything that my propagation might manage about ) this was not a unexampled theme . Joseph Strauss , designer of the Golden Gate Bridge , proposed something similar for railroads in the 1890s .
Sen. Magnuson of Washington has a bluff new idea for tie our newest DoS , Alaska , with Siberia via a bridge or vehicular burrow across the 30- to 40 - mile stretch of shallow water supply of the Bering Strait . It would go from Wales , on the tip of Seward Peninsula , to Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands , thence to Peyak , Siberia .
The Senator forecasts this hook - up within the lifetime of the present generation , to produce a rails and main road route between point as remote as New York and Paris . “ I am convinced , ” he says , “ that the tourists who one day will drive this itinerary will be our best ambassadors ! ”
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This post in the first place appeared atPaleofuture.com .
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