Why a Single Little Spot Makes Driving Across -America- Impossible
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Date: 2023-12-14
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reallifelore
If someone wanted to build an overland transportation connection through the gap that's relatively safe for travelers and still allows for similar control of passage as a ferry does, don't build a highway, build a railroad. If you want to move across some road vehicles, then a service similar to Amtrak's Autotrain or the Eurotunnel shuttle could easily be operated at that point.
That said, South and Central America's existing infrastructure is mostly nonexistent so it'd be a railroad to nowhere at the moment. The Panama Canal Railway is a proper railroad, but it's presently stand-alone and really the only one in North/Central America south of Mexico. And Rail Transport in South America is a very spotty patchwork of different gauges and mostly isolated national or metropolitan systems, where it exist at all.
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If someone wanted to build an overland transportation connection through the gap that's relatively safe for travelers and still allows for similar control of passage as a ferry does, don't build a highway, build a railroad. If you want to move across some road vehicles, then a service similar to Amtrak's Autotrain or the Eurotunnel shuttle could easily be operated at that point.
That said, South and Central America's existing infrastructure is mostly nonexistent so it'd be a railroad to nowhere at the moment. The Panama Canal Railway is a proper railroad, but it's presently stand-alone and really the only one in North/Central America south of Mexico. And Rail Transport in South America is a very spotty patchwork of different gauges and mostly isolated national or metropolitan systems, where it exist at all.
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reallifelore
I-ve been there, -jungle training, - mid-70-s. There was a Chevy Corvair rusting in the middle of nowhere. I found out many years later it was one of two - the other one made it. We heard there was a steam locomotive somewhere in the area, didn-t see it. I think a couple of two-wheel drive Rokon off-road motorcycles made it in the 80-s or 90-s. Two guys on a BMW GS crossed, but the bike was more of an impediment than anything else - they needed a winch to get it through. Would have been faster to walk. If the biting bugs, snakes, rain, and heat wasn-t enough, now there are REAL predators there, people. I guess they were there in the 70-s too - we were pretty heavily armed for training.
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I-ve been there, -jungle training, - mid-70-s. There was a Chevy Corvair rusting in the middle of nowhere. I found out many years later it was one of two - the other one made it. We heard there was a steam locomotive somewhere in the area, didn-t see it. I think a couple of two-wheel drive Rokon off-road motorcycles made it in the 80-s or 90-s. Two guys on a BMW GS crossed, but the bike was more of an impediment than anything else - they needed a winch to get it through. Would have been faster to walk. If the biting bugs, snakes, rain, and heat wasn-t enough, now there are REAL predators there, people. I guess they were there in the 70-s too - we were pretty heavily armed for training.
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-modernadventurer2
They can-t go through it, They can-t go over it, they can-t go around it. What if they tunnel under it? The longest tunnel is Laerdal tunnel in Norway which is 24. 5 km long. A tunnel between South America and North America would be the frick our times longer but that-s still not an order of magnitude and tunnelling tech is getting cheaper and faster.
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They can-t go through it, They can-t go over it, they can-t go around it. What if they tunnel under it? The longest tunnel is Laerdal tunnel in Norway which is 24. 5 km long. A tunnel between South America and North America would be the frick our times longer but that-s still not an order of magnitude and tunnelling tech is getting cheaper and faster.
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reallifelore
The title of this video is borderline clickbait. It's not about -driving across America-. That would suggest it's impossible to drive from coast to coast in the US. This video is about a small area in South America that makes it impossible to drive down -THE AMERICAS-, not America. But it worked didn't it? Your clickbait title got 3. 2 million views.
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The title of this video is borderline clickbait. It's not about -driving across America-. That would suggest it's impossible to drive from coast to coast in the US. This video is about a small area in South America that makes it impossible to drive down -THE AMERICAS-, not America. But it worked didn't it? Your clickbait title got 3. 2 million views.
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-JeepWisco
Not sure how he got 741 days as the time it took to drive through the Darien Gap by the (Jeep) Expedition of the Americas. they did the whole trip from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska in 122 days total.
-The journey would take the 13 men 122 days in total, covering over 21, 000 miles using a number of Jeep CJs, a Jeep Wagoneer, and a J-series pickup-
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Not sure how he got 741 days as the time it took to drive through the Darien Gap by the (Jeep) Expedition of the Americas. they did the whole trip from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska in 122 days total.
-The journey would take the 13 men 122 days in total, covering over 21, 000 miles using a number of Jeep CJs, a Jeep Wagoneer, and a J-series pickup-
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-arizonad8012
They could build a bridge until now. The Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is almost 165 km long, so 100 km of this gap is not impossible. Maybe it would a litte longer because of curve, but that is also managable. Another option is underground tunnel.
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They could build a bridge until now. The Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is almost 165 km long, so 100 km of this gap is not impossible. Maybe it would a litte longer because of curve, but that is also managable. Another option is underground tunnel.
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-c. t. turner2123
There was a group of men that Drove three Corvairs through the Darien Gap in the Mid 60s or so. Only two Corvairs made it out on the other side. The Corvairs we're driven from Chicago into South America. The 3rd Corvair is still in the Jungle.
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There was a group of men that Drove three Corvairs through the Darien Gap in the Mid 60s or so. Only two Corvairs made it out on the other side. The Corvairs we're driven from Chicago into South America. The 3rd Corvair is still in the Jungle.
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-JS-jh4cy
Just ask the CCP to dump all their surplus wet concrete in a straight line, it may be done in about 15 days like the Chinese build in China just line up hundreds of super tankers with concrete bags to unload before just adding water
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Just ask the CCP to dump all their surplus wet concrete in a straight line, it may be done in about 15 days like the Chinese build in China just line up hundreds of super tankers with concrete bags to unload before just adding water
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-isilder
You could walk the Atlantic coast, there are numerous resorts, towns, on the Panama and Columbian shore. no roads between them, but the land is guaranteed to never go far above sea level. (because its the coast, right? )
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You could walk the Atlantic coast, there are numerous resorts, towns, on the Panama and Columbian shore. no roads between them, but the land is guaranteed to never go far above sea level. (because its the coast, right? )
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-anthonymort5202
Why don't they just extend the Pan-American highway out to a causeway and then connect it back again to the Colombian side of the Pan-American highway it seems like such an obvious and simple solution
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Why don't they just extend the Pan-American highway out to a causeway and then connect it back again to the Colombian side of the Pan-American highway it seems like such an obvious and simple solution
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-frakismaximus3052
Scotland tried to start a new world colony in the Darien Gap in the 1690s and it was so incredibly unsuccessful it pretty much bankrupted the country and forced it into the Union with England.
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Scotland tried to start a new world colony in the Darien Gap in the 1690s and it was so incredibly unsuccessful it pretty much bankrupted the country and forced it into the Union with England.
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-jcfregoso5087
This is the first time, in my whole life, that I hear someone say that it America is -widely- considered to be 2 continents. And I can't get over it. I'm reconsidering my mere existence.
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This is the first time, in my whole life, that I hear someone say that it America is -widely- considered to be 2 continents. And I can't get over it. I'm reconsidering my mere existence.
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-thricefan89
So they are too separate continents?
No? South Americans refuse to think there's 7 continents?
Well I'm glad you're okay with Europe and Asia being separate. That makes sense
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So they are too separate continents?
No? South Americans refuse to think there's 7 continents?
Well I'm glad you're okay with Europe and Asia being separate. That makes sense
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reallifelore
I-m not worried about getting hoof and mouth disease, but yellow fever, malaria, dengue, zika, chagas disease, or getting kidnapped and murdered don-t appeal to me.
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I-m not worried about getting hoof and mouth disease, but yellow fever, malaria, dengue, zika, chagas disease, or getting kidnapped and murdered don-t appeal to me.
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-LukeL007
If it were possible imagine a train journey from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America. You start your journey seeing polar bears and end it seeing penguins.
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If it were possible imagine a train journey from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America. You start your journey seeing polar bears and end it seeing penguins.
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-richardellison233
I love how anyone who's not a socialist is considered far right by socialists yet NAZI's think socialism without nationalism is right wing.
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I love how anyone who's not a socialist is considered far right by socialists yet NAZI's think socialism without nationalism is right wing.
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-bipolaryx
Colombian here, it is a dangerous place, geographically, wildlife wise, trafficking, armed groups.
but glad that place is still almost virgin.
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Colombian here, it is a dangerous place, geographically, wildlife wise, trafficking, armed groups.
but glad that place is still almost virgin.
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-paulataylor7675
Why don, t they put matting logs Rock and build a simple road or is the locals too simple to do this and charge a road tarrif! Ken Hughes
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Why don, t they put matting logs Rock and build a simple road or is the locals too simple to do this and charge a road tarrif! Ken Hughes
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-scottieeasley4907
It's not gonna stop you from crossing over it's you might as well build a bridge so people stop getting killed trying to navigate it
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It's not gonna stop you from crossing over it's you might as well build a bridge so people stop getting killed trying to navigate it
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reallifelore
You can't drive from Asia to Africa. There's a river at the right end of the Sinai Peninsula and you literally can't drive across there
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You can't drive from Asia to Africa. There's a river at the right end of the Sinai Peninsula and you literally can't drive across there
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reallifelore
Well I think if USA needs to bomb it then please- don-t.
Instead build a sea bridge between Panama and Colombia for god sake.
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Well I think if USA needs to bomb it then please- don-t.
Instead build a sea bridge between Panama and Colombia for god sake.
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-naseehall
the Chinese could get a road done in a year with no environmental damage. They've had far more difficult projects than this.
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the Chinese could get a road done in a year with no environmental damage. They've had far more difficult projects than this.
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-davelack553
3: 18 The first to drive across were the British Trans-Americas Expedition of 1971 to '72 using a pair of Range Rovers.
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3: 18 The first to drive across were the British Trans-Americas Expedition of 1971 to '72 using a pair of Range Rovers.
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-StrokeMahEgo
Don't build the highway through it. That's the first mistake.
Build the highway over it, or around it, over sea.
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Don't build the highway through it. That's the first mistake.
Build the highway over it, or around it, over sea.
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-GOAT_GOATERSON
But why not make a trail? It doesn't have to be a highway, just a way someone could possibly get through
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But why not make a trail? It doesn't have to be a highway, just a way someone could possibly get through
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-TimJSwan
I think they should tunnel across and allow special authorized transport vehicles to go through only.
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I think they should tunnel across and allow special authorized transport vehicles to go through only.
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