Why? I mean for more than a reason that they bilked US taxpayers with Boston's famously corrupt failure in the "Big Dig?" Just because the technology exists to undertake such a project is no freakin reason to do it.
Russia calls on Canada to board Bering tunnel
Globe and Mail
Russia calls on Canada to board Bering tunnel Intercontinental train route under the strait to go through British Columbia SHAWN MCCARTHY OTTAWA -- Russia's ambassador in Ottawa says a $60-billion (U.S.) proposal to build a rail tunnel under the Bering Strait is no pipedream, and that Canada needs to be part of the megaproject. Ambassador Georgiy Mamedov said yesterday that the hugely ambitious project had its modern genesis in a high-level U.S.-Russian committee that was charged by former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former Russian President Boris Yeltsin to pursue increased transportation links between the two former Cold War rivals. It was shelved after Russia experienced its financial meltdown in 1998, but Mr. Mamedov said the proponents now have the support of President Vladimir Putin to develop a firm proposal. The ambassador, who was a senior Foreign Ministry official during the earlier discussions, said he is now optimistic that the Bering Strait tunnel will be built.
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