article_snippet: Proposals have been put forward to build the mega route stretching about 12,400 miles from the western edge of Russia to the Bering Strait where United States nudges then Alaska.
article_snippet: A Trans-Siberian rail link as well as oil and gas pipes would run alongside Australian Highway 1, and plans have been mooted already for a rail tunnel connecting the far flung Russian region of Chukotka - where football tycoon Roman Abramovich once served as governor - and Alaska.
article_snippet: the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development is viewed as a 'powerful and versatile' corridor that would allow massive investment and the construction of pipelines for oil and gas, the laying of facilities for electricity and water supplies and the opportunity for new cities to be created.
article_snippet: The rail network in Siberia was recently extended with the construction of a new line to a station across the Lena River from Russia's diamond capital of Yakutsk.
article_snippet: Potentially a new line could be extended further east to Magadan and the northern Pacific.
highlights_snippet: Trans-Eurasian Belt Development would span half globe's circumference .
  
highlights_snippet: Would link western edge of Russia to the Bering Strait and then Alaska .
  