Mr. Obama should consider the Trans-Global Highway as a national goal

[Dave]

I think that one infrastructure project that President Obama should consider is the Trans-Global Highway, proposed by Frank X. Didik a number of years ago. Didik, if you recall, was the founder of the Electric Car Society, in the early 1980's and has been a strong advocate of electric cars for years. According to Didik, the proposed "highway", which would contain roads, rail roads, water, oil and gas pipes as well electric and communication cables. The highway would use and standardize the existing road networks and build new roads as well as a number of key tunnels. Interestingly, the longest Tunnel in the proposal, would still be shorter than the longest existing tunnel today. It would seem that there are many advantages to the construction of the Trans Global Highway including vastly lower cost and faster shipping, better allocation of resources, the ability of utilizing raw materials and much lower carbon emissions, than the existing transportation system. The highway would open up a new era of international cooperation. The Trans-Global Highway site is located at www.TransGlobalHighway.com

[Stephen Baker]

I went to the Web site and read about the Trans Global Highway. Once it was completed, how much would the shipment of a container from China to, say, New York compare with current shipping?