Personally, I wanna see a roadway between greenland and N. America..... an extension of that one 19-mile long canadian bridge (the name eludes me) perhaps? that'd be awsome....drive from greenland to Uraguay.....




and it's be cool to have some form of non-boat crossing from south cape to anatrctica...... but that'd be a real doozy.....

Personally, I wanna see a roadway between greenland and N. America..... an extension of that one 19-mile long canadian bridge (the name eludes me) perhaps? that'd be awsome....drive from greenland to Uraguay.....




and it's be cool to have some form of non-boat crossing from south cape to anatrctica...... but that'd be a real doozy.....

1. Connecting Batam ( Indonesia ) to Singapore : " Prosperity Bridge "
2. Connecting Sumatera ( Indonesia ) to Malaysia : ... Actually this one was under feasibility studied , however Asia FInancial Crisis has postponed this " Longest Bridge in the World " ...... :cry:

*UK Mainland to Ireland
*Europe to Africa
*Russia to Alaska
*UK to France (above ground for cars etc)

OK its only a small one but still A good Bridge in Dubai across to Deria I mean a nice one and its so needed with the Tunnel and existing bridge allways clogged !
But Also I guess singapore to Malaysia instead of that stupid causeway !
UK to France I mean what the deal with the Chunnel and off load on load crap !
And i love the idea of Brigde to Indoneisa from Mal why not runit down along the islands to Papua New Guniea and in to Queensland Aust. That way you could drive to London from Melbourne !

Yes, a bridge from Queensland to Papua New Guinea is very appealing.

UK to France to me. And this one would have real use, unlike much of the bridges proposed above. ;)

Melbourne to London... how many cars could make it that far? Not mine, that's for sure.

Personally, I wanna see a roadway between greenland and N. America..... an extension of that one 19-mile long canadian bridge (the name eludes me) perhaps? that'd be awsome....drive from greenland to Uraguay.....

Actually, you wouldn't be able to because there is still no road across the Darian Gap between Panama and Colombia. Resolving this seems almost as hard as building a bridge to Greenland.

korea and japan perhaps.

i dont think a bridge between singapore or anywhere on the malay peninsula and indonesia would be quite feasible because that strait is extremely busy. maybe a tunnel would make more sense?

I'd like to see Femer Belt spanned. And it look like it's gonna happen too :)

Don't know what I'm talking about? See here:
http://www.elca.org/dgm/country_packet/denmark/map.jpg
it's the bit below the isles in the center (i.e. Denmark-Germany), the waters between those islands and the one close to the mainland was spanned in the 90s and the Sound (between Copenhagen and Malmö) link was opened in '00 iirc.

estonia - finland would be great :)

Actually, you wouldn't be able to because there is still no road across the Darian Gap between Panama and Colombia. Resolving this seems almost as hard as building a bridge to Greenland.

why is that?

OK its only a small one but still A good Bridge in Dubai across to Deria I mean a nice one and its so needed with the Tunnel and existing bridge allways clogged !
But Also I guess singapore to Malaysia instead of that stupid causeway !
UK to France I mean what the deal with the Chunnel and off load on load crap !
And i love the idea of Brigde to Indoneisa from Mal why not runit down along the islands to Papua New Guniea and in to Queensland Aust. That way you could drive to London from Melbourne !


that would be insane! driving to england lolol. i would do it just to say i had!

why is that?

It's a good question, actually. The last road from the north ends at La Palma in Panama, and the last road from the south ends at Turbo, Columbia. In between is around 200 kms of thick jungles, tortuous rivers, low but rugged mountains, and a vast marshy swamp that separates Panama from South America. The Pan-American Highway stretches some 17,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina, and is yet to be completed across the Darien Gap.

But I get the feeling it is not the geography, but more the politics that stops the connection from being made. There is already significant problems with controlling clandestine movement across this border, particularly in relation to drugs. The impression from my reading about it is that most North American officials fear the freeing up of travel from Columbia to USA, preferring to limit it to boats & aircraft which can at least be monitored by sattelite.

@trances - there is a bridge between singapore and malaysia other than the causeway at the western end of singapore. it's nothing to look at, but perhaps you might find the customs on both ends interesting.

* Strait of Gibraltar
* England-France
* Ijmeer
* Amsterdam-Rijn Kanaal
* Many more

* Sri Lanka-India
* Shanghai-Los Angeles :D

Bass Strait - 500k yee haw :)

British Columbia to Vancouver island

its the island with Victoria on it
http://www.mayflyfishing.com/images/BC.jpg

Bass Strait - 500k yee haw :)

Actually Tayser, while this is only a dream, the longest bridge would be much less than 500 km. From Port Albert to the Hogan group is around 70 kms. After that - it is "easy"... a 35 km bridge to the Kent Group, 55 km bridge to Flinders Island, some short ones over Franklin Sound and Armstrong Channel, and then around 20 kms to Tasmania. With conservationists up in arms about running a cable under Bass Strait, I can well imagine how this would be received if it was ever proposed! Maybe we should keep the ferries in operation for the moment...

British Columbia to Vancouver island

This must have been seriously proposed, considering the capital city is out there, and it does have a reasonable population to support. How far is it? What are the problems?

Singapore to Sumatra, Sumatra to Java and Java to Bali.

i saw a documentary this weekend about a proposed highspeed railway between new york to london. it is supposed to be a semi submerged tube like structure in which mag-lev trains would travel at speeds of 5000 miles an hour (8000 kms/hr) and take 54 minues to cross the atlantic. sounds more like a pipe dream though.

i saw a documentary this weekend about a proposed highspeed railway between new york to london. it is supposed to be a semi submerged tube like structure in which mag-lev trains would travel at speeds of 5000 miles an hour (8000 kms/hr) and take 54 minues to cross the atlantic. sounds more like a pipe dream though.

It actually is a pipe dream, it would be highly vulnerable to terrorism. Believe me either you drown or you will suffocate in a vacuum.

There already is a railway from New York to London. It's called air travel.

:hammer:

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Forget all this talk about bridging Siberia with Alaska, Greenland with Canada, etc, etc. A more useful, realistic, and practical bridge would be the one connecting Italy's Sicilia and Calabria regions.

korea and japan perhaps.

i dont think a bridge between singapore or anywhere on the malay peninsula and indonesia would be quite feasible because that strait is extremely busy. maybe a tunnel would make more sense?I like the Korea to Japan idea but of course there are problems mainly political. The Koreans and also the rest of Asia still haven't entirely forgiven Japan for what happened back in WW2. Ever noticed that Koreans don't buy Japanese cars? :)

The advantage of having a bridge would mean Japan gets to have a connection not just with South Korea but of course the rest of asia but that means you'll have to go thru North Korea to do that and as we all know Kim Jong Il isn't exactly the most "level headed" person on the planet unlike Saddam Hussein. oops I forgot North Korea's "official" name is the DPRK - democractic people's republic of korea :)

Melbourne to London... how many cars could make it that far? Not mine, that's for sure.


they could have lots of petrol statoins (gas stations) along it and somewhere 2 eat id get mighty hungry

I'd like to see Femer Belt spanned. And it look like it's gonna happen too :)

Don't know what I'm talking about? See here:
http://www.elca.org/dgm/country_packet/denmark/map.jpg
it's the bit below the isles in the center (i.e. Denmark-Germany), the waters between those islands and the one close to the mainland was spanned in the 90s and the Sound (between Copenhagen and Malmö) link was opened in '00 iirc.

Why not build a bridge between Helsingor and Helsingborg? It's pretty narrow there.

A more useful, realistic, and practical bridge would be the one connecting Italy's Sicilia and Calabria regions.

:applause: :applause: :applause: Great idea. That's only a 2 mile gap.

Why not build a bridge between Helsingor and Helsingborg? It's pretty narrow there.

I guess they won't do it now that there is a bridge over the Sound. But does anyone know what that route was selected instead of further north where it is obviously narrower?

Buenos Aires - Colonia (Argentina - Uruguay)!

Bering Straight would also be nice. Imagine driving all the way from South Africa, through Asia and downwards until you reach Argentina and Tierra del Fuego!

It's a good question, actually. The last road from the north ends at La Palma in Panama, and the last road from the south ends at Turbo, Columbia. In between is around 200 kms of thick jungles, tortuous rivers, low but rugged mountains, and a vast marshy swamp that separates Panama from South America. The Pan-American Highway stretches some 17,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina, and is yet to be completed across the Darien Gap.

But I get the feeling it is not the geography, but more the politics that stops the connection from being made. There is already significant problems with controlling clandestine movement across this border, particularly in relation to drugs. The impression from my reading about it is that most North American officials fear the freeing up of travel from Columbia to USA, preferring to limit it to boats & aircraft which can at least be monitored by sattelite.

you're right about that, but at least you can take a ferry from Colombia to Panama


that'd be awsome....drive from greenland to Uraguay.....

if you meant with that going from the northern part of the world to the southern part then you should have said "that'd be awsome....drive from Greenland To "Argentina" ".... ;)

vancouver to vancouver island

1- Miami-Caracas via Cuba, Jamaica, and Caribean
2- Nice-Corsica-Sardegna
3- Sicilia-Tunisia
4- Scotland-Ireland
5- Scotland-Iceland-Greenland-Canada....euh a bit too long for a car or a train.

I would like to see 2 water spans to be bridged:

1. Vancouver to Vancouver Island, but a study shows that is is not fesible, even a tunnel.

2. The Pearl River Delta (Hong Kong, Macau, Zhuhai) They are planning on building it, it is just a matter of when will this 29 km bridge be completed. I hope that they will choose to build the world's longest Suspension Bridge.(use the Gilbrator <~~Bad spelling~ Superbridge design, It would work there).

Why not build a bridge between Helsingor and Helsingborg? It's pretty narrow there.
I guess they won't do it now that there is a bridge over the Sound. But does anyone know what that route was selected instead of further north where it is obviously narrower?
Helsingör and Helsingborg are much smaller cities than Copenhagen and Malmö, so it was more about connecting those cities than connecting the rest of Sweden/Norway to the Continent. Tho for thru traffic the Helsinge-option makes more sense. I'd put a rail-tunnel there, maybe with 2 dedicated HSR tracks for Cph-Gbg-Oslo/Sthlm trains.
It would reallyimprove the option of commuting Helsingborg-Copenhagen too, and make a circle-line around the Sund possible.

1. Why not bridge the Strait of Gibraltar? Algeciras-Tangier would be a good idea.
2. A connection between Tallinn and Helsinki would also be a good idea. The Gulf Of Finland may be a little too wide for a simple bridge, but a bridge-tunnel project like Chesapeake Bay, USA would be great.

Why not build a bridge between Helsingor and Helsingborg? It's pretty narrow there.

1. The strait is one of the world´s most trafficated strait. If you had to ban ships from crossing the strait at a time during construction period, that would mean a long de-tour through Store Bælt and a great loss of money.

2. The bridge would have to be very high (at least 70 meter above sea level) to allow all sorts of ships to still passage through the strait, plus the strait is very deep (think it is 50 meter to sea bottom) = extremely expensive to build

3. A motorway tunnel and a railway tunnel would be a much cheaper alternative to build.

If Denmark had kept Scania instead of losing it to Sweden (which lead to a very harsh Swedish government in Scania, the försvenskningen or "Swedisation") I believe that Öresundsbron and a motorway tunnel and railway tunnel between Helsingborg - Helsingør would have been built already back in the 70´s. Right now the problem is that nobody is discussing a tunnel at all since Öresundsbron got built, and the only plans for a tunnel would be a railway tunnel, not a solution for the car traffic :(

An other interesting thing is that the motorway between Copenhagen - Elsinore is already prepared for an extension to Helsingborg. The motorway suddenly stops outside Elsinore (in case the motorway would be extended) and the exit number is 3, which means that they have saved exit 1 & 2 in case the motorway would be extended onto the Swedish side.

I'd love to see a bridge from St. Catherines (sp) to Toronto, or a tunnel...

something to reduce the 1 1/2 drive to 20mins (you have to go around Lake Ontario) however I feel this will never happen

Spain and Morocco HAVE signed a letter of intent to build a railway tunnel! Egypt and Saudi intend to build a bridge over the Gulf of Akaba. I bet French constructors are already salivating because of these prospects.
I'd like to have a bridge spanning the entire country of Belgium. The view from the motorway is plug ugly while a lot of Belgian cities are very attractive, so I'd like to see their market places from above. A new polder inclusive of a few waterways in the North Sea that would connect Rotterdam and Suffolk or Essex might be handy. Rotterdam is expanding the harbour in that direction already. It will include 'new nature' as they call it.
Furthermore it has been forgotten to connect all of the oil platforms in the North Sea until now. That may result in an utmost surreal scenery.

I guess they won't do it now that there is a bridge over the Sound. But does anyone know what that route was selected instead of further north where it is obviously narrower?


Because its impossible to create the ends of a freeway + railway bridge in downtown Helsingör and downtown Helsingborg and because a bridge between Helsingör and Helsingborg will have a bad influence on the Atlantic to Baltic Sea water transfer...

It's a good question, actually. The last road from the north ends at La Palma in Panama, and the last road from the south ends at Turbo, Columbia. In between is around 200 kms of thick jungles, tortuous rivers, low but rugged mountains, and a vast marshy swamp that separates Panama from South America. The Pan-American Highway stretches some 17,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina, and is yet to be completed across the Darien Gap.

But I get the feeling it is not the geography, but more the politics that stops the connection from being made. There is already significant problems with controlling clandestine movement across this border, particularly in relation to drugs. The impression from my reading about it is that most North American officials fear the freeing up of travel from Columbia to USA, preferring to limit it to boats & aircraft which can at least be monitored by sattelite.

Well most of it has to do with keeping N Americas cattle supply safe from hoof and mouth. And the cost, financially and environmentally, of paving over 50+ miles of rainforest just doesn't make it feasible.

In lake city MN by lake pepin.http://community.webshots.com/photo/88660263/88744585NNLbyj
I used to live there you know

Russia-Alaska. It would be a 55 mile long bridge.

I'd like to see Femer Belt spanned. And it look like it's gonna happen too :)

Don't know what I'm talking about? See here:
http://www.elca.org/dgm/country_packet/denmark/map.jpg
it's the bit below the isles in the center (i.e. Denmark-Germany), the waters between those islands and the one close to the mainland was spanned in the 90s and the Sound (between Copenhagen and Malmö) link was opened in '00 iirc.
That would be great, it would prolly be a car/train bridge. That would almost save an hour from Hamburg to Copenhaven. I travelled to Copenhaven by train and used this route, the train goes on a ferry nowadays.

Great thread! My suggestions:

Stretto de Messina bridge (apparently already U/C Sicily / Continental Italy) is nice!
Darian Gap Bridge (Panama/Colombia, that needs to be fixed, otherwise there isn't a pan-american road out there anyways!)
Eurotunnel expansion (for cars underwater, how does that sound?)
Kopenhagen to Oslo or Stockholm bridge (I don't know which one is closer) could be of great use.


I don't really think Vancouver/Victoria is necessary, my parents have been there and they used a fantastic ferry that was worth the ride

Kopenhagen to Oslo or Stockholm bridge (I don't know which one is closer) could be of great use.


but theres already one which connects kopenhagen with oslo and stockholm ;)

There is?? WOW I'd like to see that how's it called?
Thanks I'm so stupid I had no Idea about that!

^The bridge is actually Copenhagen-Malmö. It's called the Öresund Bridge iirc (tho with the Danish Ö, not the Swedish).
Malmö is the city straight across the water from Copenhagen (you can see across), and ever since the bridge got built the almost-HSR Stockholm-Malmö trains keep going all the way to Copenhagen.

EU-USA would be pretty cool and I'm sure there'd be lots of people using the link.

miami to miami beach

Across Long Island Sound - connecting Long Island (NY) to Connecticut or Rhode Island.

miami to miami beach

It is bridged, 4 times actually. How about a bridge over the straits of Florida between Key West and Cuba. It would save a lot of rafts.

This must have been seriously proposed, considering the capital city is out there, and it does have a reasonable population to support. How far is it? What are the problems?


firstly to whoever said the ferry is fantastic and worth the ride - it's fantastic if you are a tourist. It's not fantastic if you live in victoria and work in vancouver (which some people actually do) and have to stand in line for the ferry for an hour and a half. A bridge would do wonders for the province.

Here are the problems:

#1 - unlike between PEI and Canada mainland on the east coast, the waters are very deep.

#2 - Although on the map it seems like there's nothing between the island and the mainland, there is actually a crapload of a lot of islands in between (also serviceable by ferry). They completely prohibit the concept of a direct bridge, so it would have to go all over the place.

#3 - vancouver is a major port and a bridge that long would have to have gaps or areas of highly raised elevation

#4 - it's just too expensive for everybody to get their shit together and do it.

PNG to Queensland is possible and would look like the Florida Keys Highway with all the low lying sand banks and few coral reefs.

really we could do that up there ?

The London to Melbourne drive is not contigent on Qld (Cape York Peninsula) to PNG bridge. It would require a whole serious of bridges/tunnels through the eastern part of the Indonesian islands and then you would have the problem of linking to Irian Jaya (west Papua) which is not near any of the other bigger indo islands in the central east of indo.

1) Siberia and Alaska (bering straight) makes sense as links all continents in the world bar Antartica and Australia.

2) Japan to Russia via Sakhalin Island bridge and tunnel at sthern end to Sapporo. More politically likely than Korea and Japan is the Japanese and Russians can resolve issue of Kurril islands.

3) Gibraltar

I hope for a bridge crossing the Cook Strait.

I hope for a bridge crossing the Cook Strait.

I too agree. however, would have to like the Kobe bridge with New Zealands tectonic activity.

I'd like to see a bridge linking Singapore and Sumatra Island, then another bridge linking Sumatra & Java. This would connect Indonesia with mainland SE Asia.

London - Rotterdam bridge would be pretty cool and actually useful connecting up to the port. I could possibly see the Gibraltar Bridge happening if North Africa rapidly develops.

A crazy idea would be to bridge the North Sea from say Edinburgh/Aberdeen to Stavanger in Norway (630km/502km) I would love to see such a bridge constructed just for jaw dropping-ness - I could see the towers being 10km tall :laugh:

50 years ago some people wanted to build a water-energy plant between Spain and Marroko. This plant could easily produce enough power for 1/2 of Europe. And it would be a bridge.

http://images.snapfish.com/342%3A%3B6%3B923232%7Ffp64%3Dot%3E2336%3D897%3D58%3C%3DXROQDF%3E232376%3B4%3B53%3B%3Aot1lsi

the pacific ocean would be nice.

...not.

Is there an alternative of a series of bridges and highways around the Strait of Georgia north ward-it looks like the water crossings are not too great farther north-what's the largest water crossing going that route?

Some that CAN be done;
- Gibraltar Bridge (Spain to Morocco) driving from Paris to Dubai/Johannesburg
- Asian superhighway


Some that are not beneficial to the world;
- Bering Strait Bridge (just more oil for US)> really, who would cross it, and only for 4 months of year.

lol Melbourne to England would be a great around the world car drive... it would take a few weeks of driving, even from melb to Brissy, it takes ages, and thatsonly just over half way up Australia. let alone to Asia.

How about a bridge that connects Toronto to Buffalo, Niagra Falls area. It will cut the time to go to Buffalo from nearly 2 hours to about 30 minutes or less.

Another one could be Milwaukee to Grand Rapids.
People from Milwaukee could go to detroit from 9 hours, down to about 5 hours, but would be bad for Chicago, because the bridge bypass chicago. At least you can see Chicago's skyline from the bridge.

Gulf of Mexico Bridge( houston to Tampa) put a few floating gas stations/food stops and thats it though i doubt this kinda bridge will ever be built :runaway:

It be cool if they can connect Japan/S. Korea/N. Korea/China together. With the typhoon, this is most likely be impossible.

Here's a disaster waiting to happen . . .

A bridge between Key West and Cuba.

Or

A bridge between Taiwan and China.

From Russia to Alaska!

Japan to mainland

Gibralter

Denmark-sweden

Here's a disaster waiting to happen . . .

A bridge between Key West and Cuba.

Or

A bridge between Taiwan and China.
no way in hell would they build one to Cuba. The Cubans wouldn't allow it, and America doesn't trade with them, so whats the point? ;)

the bass strait...

The Timor/Arafura Strait (Northern Aust to SE Asia)

Toronto-NY-London :D

Southern tip of Baja California(mexico) to the Mexico's mainland.

A bridge from Taiwan to mainland china.Bridges larger then this arenot realistic and unusefull because then you should drive a day to across a bridge.

Denmark-sweden

There already is a bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden (Copenhagen - Malmø) across Øresund.

No way I want a bridge across Fehmern belt, I don't want bridges all over, and ferries are just fine.

Helsinki - Talinn could be cool

Gibraltar Strait.

No way I want a bridge across Fehmern belt, I don't want bridges all over, and ferries are just fine.


I disagree. If they build that bridge, summer-time traffic jams to the harbours would be a thing of the past. It would take just three hours to get to Hamburg from Copenhagen instead of that 4-5 hours it takes today, probably even a lot faster with highspeed trains if they improve the railway on both sides of the Fehmarn. Besides, "ferries are just fine" is an emotional argument that doesn´t speak for why there shouldn´t be a bridge. It was used back when StoreBaelt and Öresund were in discussion but now they´re there, there aren´t that many missing the days of the ferries. You still have an option to take the ferries between Denmark-Sweden/Seeland-Jutland if you would like to do so.

The roads to the ferries on both sides of Fehmarn Belt are anyways already getting upgraded: Construction is on its way to complete the last missing piece of motorvej in Denmark between Roedbyhavn and Copenhagen (finally!) and on the German side they are extending Autobahn towards Heiligenhafen. The following links about these projects are in Danish/German only:

http://www.vejdirektoratet.dk/dokument.asp?page=document&objno=74466]
http://landesregierung.schleswig-holstein.de/coremedia/generator/Aktueller_20Bestand/MWAV/X__Landesamt_20f_C3_BCr_20Stra_C3_9Fenbau_20und_20Verkehr/Information/B207_20zur_20A1.html

I think everthing that brings me 1 hour (or more) closer to Copenhagen by train is great news.

"ferries are just fine" is an emotional argument that doesn´t speak for why there shouldn´t be a bridge

Exactly. I know a bridge would cut down traffic jams and such, but personally, I like ferries better. I know I don't have any good arguments not to build a bridge, I just like it better without, that's all

A bridge across the heads of Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, Australia would be a project that could possibly be built within the next hundred years. It would have to be a long span.It is a long road journey from one side of the bay to the other via Melbourne. A car ferry copes with traffic volume at present.

^I saw a thread on that in the ozcrapers section..called bridging the rip or something like that> linking Mornington and Geelong.

This post should be multi-vote poll! See which bridge is more popular! :bash:

PNG to Queensland is possible and would look like the Florida Keys Highway with all the low lying sand banks and few coral reefs.

Yes, you are right, the strait is 150km wide and has a maximum depth of only 12m. I think a big problem with this is the lack of approach roads on either side. There is 800 or more kilometres of dirt road on the Australian side all the way down to near Cairns or Cooktown. On the PNG side of the strait there is probably no road at all.

Also, there is nowhere to go in PNG. There aren't many roads there, much of the transport is down by aeroplane. The bridge would only make sense if it were linked to an enormous bridge between west papua and the rest of Indonesia.

Some bridges I'd like to see:
Strait of Gibraltar
Malacca strait and Sumatra - Java
Japan - Russia
Port Philip Bay heads

- A bridge over the Schelde (Scheldt) in Antwerpen (Antwerp);
- Calais-Dover;
- Strait of Gribaltar, like this one: http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=5478 ;
- Ireland-Wales;
- Gulf of Finland;
- Gulf of Riga;
- Gulf of Mexico;
- East Sea;
- Siberia-Alaska;
- Australia-New Zealand and:
- South Africa/Argentina/Chile-Antarctica;
- Europe-North America :carrot:

California to Hawaii (Yeah, that was a joke)

pacific ocean

Singapore and Johor Bahru

Florida to Yucatan Pen.

1:Sicily-Italy (already projected)
2:Sweden-Finnland
Finnland-Estonia
(both of the spans are very important routes but because of their length i don't think that they will built bridges there)
But I'm sure that even on of them will be spanned sooner than Gibraltar Strait.
3: Germany(Rostock)-Danemark
Germany (Kiel Area)-Danemark
(I think that bridge near Kiel has been planned)
4:Paris-France (I've heard about plans to replace rail line in tunnel by road) Personally I think that very important routes like that should have both transport systems (rail+road) so I'm for next tunnel (road) or road bridge there.
5:North Ireland-Scotland
Ireland-Wales
(Very important)
6:Greece (Athens area)-Turkey(Izmir area)
Greece/Albania-Italy
(Now Turkey isn't very well developed but it will be in better'n'better condition. The second argument for this roads/rail lines is that they will be an alternative routes to West Europe from Middle East)
7:UAE/Oman-Iran
(Iran is not so poor country, If it has some normal goverment it would be a fast developing country. Now I'm just a bit for this bridge)
8:Macau-Hong Kong
(MUST be, and it's planned now)
9:Malaysia/Singapore-Indonesia
(MUST be as above but I haven't heard about it to be planned)
10:Indonesia (Sumatra-Java)
(Very important, especially when bridge to continental Asia would be built. I think that they are already building tunnel there)
11:Japan-Sth Korea
(today SF but I think we will see this bruidge/tunnel much soonner than we think)
12:Japan (I'm not writeing about it beacuse i don't even know If i have an actual map. On my map there are very much high urbaized areas with no rail/road bridge/tunnel connection.
13:USA(Florida)-Cuba he,he:) (Now it will be a poor joke, but someday when they kill Castro and Cuba became a free, democratic country and it will be again a summer paradise for Americans it would be very useful)
14:Uruguay(Montevideo area)-Argentina(Buenos Aires area)
15:New Zeland(Sth Isl-Nth Isl)
16:Australia(continetal OZ-Tasmania)
(maybe someday)

I haven't listed Gigraltar Bridge and Bering Strait Bridge. Bridge over Bering Strait is completley unnecessary. Gibraltar Bridge would be a great idea if Marocco woudb be well developed). If Gibraltar bridge why not Tunisia-Italy(Sicily). The same aruments for "yes but not now" as for Gibraltar Bridge.

There is one area that is CRYING for a bridge. Thats the link between Salamina Island in Greece and the mainland cities of Piraeus and Nea Peramos. Actually, it would be two bridges with the Island in between. The EU should fund it, frankly.

A transatlatic bridge would be terrific!!
I'm just dreaming......

UK to France to me. And this one would have real use, unlike much of the bridges proposed above. ;)

How would that work? At what point would you change the side of the road that you drive on? :D

The eurostar is still the best solution because it's brings you in the heart of London and if they would build a bridge you must drive for a long time.
Paris-Calais :3 hours
Bridge : maybe 40 minutes
Dover-London :1.5-2 hours
why drive for more than 6 hours if you can do it in 2.20 hours ?

sorry for my english =)

Has anyone said India-Sri Lanka yet?

LA- HK.

The eurostar is still the best solution because it's brings you in the heart of London and if they would build a bridge you must drive for a long time.
Paris-Calais :3 hours
Bridge : maybe 40 minutes
Dover-London :1.5-2 hours
why drive for more than 6 hours if you can do it in 2.20 hours ?

sorry for my english =)

But you can't take your car from London to Paris, the car depots are at Dover and Calais. So if you want to take your car it actually makes little difference distance-wise and means you don't have to wait for scheduled trains.
However, I don't think a bridge is the solution (as cool as it would be) I think a solution would be to put car terminals on the out-skirts of Paris, London and Brussels. I can't really understand why they didn't do this in the first place :?

firstly to whoever said the ferry is fantastic and worth the ride - it's fantastic if you are a tourist. It's not fantastic if you live in victoria and work in vancouver (which some people actually do) and have to stand in line for the ferry for an hour and a half. A bridge would do wonders for the province.

Here are the problems:

#1 - unlike between PEI and Canada mainland on the east coast, the waters are very deep.

#2 - Although on the map it seems like there's nothing between the island and the mainland, there is actually a crapload of a lot of islands in between (also serviceable by ferry). They completely prohibit the concept of a direct bridge, so it would have to go all over the place.

#3 - vancouver is a major port and a bridge that long would have to have gaps or areas of highly raised elevation

#4 - it's just too expensive for everybody to get their shit together and do it.Why would anyone live in Victoria and commute to Vancouver in the first place? Or Nanaimo to Vancouver or Gibson to Vancouver?

Does UBC force students / profs to take classes on both sides of the Strait? Or a government employee (and if so, why can't they take the float plane)?

Frankly, it never made any sense to me why the BC government should be in Victoria. Obviously there are too many vested interests to change this arrangement today.

a bridge that links China with SK over Yellow Sea, and another bridge that links Busan with Fukuoka , imagine the amount of traffic in one day.

Bridge which links India to antartica:hahaha:

Florida to Yucatan Pen.
That and to Cuba once Castro is out

Singapore and Johor Bahru

Don't we already have that?:yes:

well a bridge that linked Vancouver and Victoria wouldnt really work, The bridge would span about 25kms over 1 distance to the closest island then go from that island to all the little islands Sidney or Crofton, its just too big and would cost way too much, btw they are building a new bridge in Greater Vancouver, connecting Maple Ridge and Langley called the Golden Ears bridge, should stimulate alot of growth in Maple Ridge,

Best New Bridge in the world would go over the Bearing Sea connecting Russia to Alaska, although the challenges in building it would far surpass any bridge ever built

Baji(or however you spell it)Pen. to Mexico.Southern part of Baji

Japan and South Korea. Just a matter of time I suppose?

China and Taiwan if they make peace.

A pillared highway between Gaza and WestBank, as for palestininas not to set foot on Israeli soil.

Florida and Cuba!

Nariman Point and Navi Mumbai!

That submerged London/New York one would be amazing! 5000mph trains! I saw that program. it is possible eventually, I don't know if it will happen in our life time though. Well, I am only 16, who knows what will happen in the next 50 years?

British Columbia to Vancouver island

its the island with Victoria on it
http://www.mayflyfishing.com/images/BC.jpg

this is a cool idea theoretically but a bad one ultimately, half the beauty of the region to tourists is taking the ferries that weave through the beautiful little islands in the Strait of Georgia to Nanaimo and Sidney/Victoria on Vancouver Island. It's not like there's some increduous amount of traffic flow from the island to the continent. if there was, a bridge would have been built. but it IS a cool idea. ;)

heres the bridge I want built:

New Zealand, North Island - South Island!!! :scouserd:

Gulf of Mexico Bridge (Houston to Tampa) put a few floating gas stations/food stops and thats it though i doubt this kinda bridge will ever be built.

I-275westcoastfl, you got me on this one! :lol:

I have a better proposal to bridge the Gulf of Mexico. If you were to go straight west from Johns Pass between Treasure Island and Madeira Beach you would end up somewhere on Mustang Island south of Aransas Pass in Texas, which is in the greater Corpus Christi area and the distance covered over open water would be about 900 miles (1440 km), give or take.

Now I would interconnect Interstate 375 in St. Petersburg from its present junction with Interstate 275 (using the ghost ramp that is still there when the highway opened in 1977), head west across St. Petersburg, tunnel underneath the Intracoastal Waterway (so that you would not have to build a high level or drawbridge), cross Madeira Beach or Treasure Island, and then head due west across the Gulf of Mexico using a series of tunnels and high level bridges akin to the Chesapeake Bridge and Tunnel in Virginia. The high level bridges would have to be high enough so that every ship plying the world's seas can pass. Upon making landfall in Texas, have the bridge connect with Interstate 37 (the highway that goes from Corpus Christi to San Antonio).

Pros:

Make the western United States (particularly southern California) more accessible to Florida rather than having to use Interstate 10 east of Texas.

Cons:

900+ miles of open Gulf of Mexico. (Will be the biggest obstacle)
Hazard of hurricanes during hurricane season.
Treacherous ocean depths and high waves.
Service islands built at regular intervals (services for motorists such as food, fuel, lodging) that would have to be built in deep water, and then a breakwater would have to be built to counteract the forces of the open sea.

I believe it would take a engineering feat of extraordinary proportions to construct a crossing of this magnitude.

For practical use, I'd love to have a second crossing of the Chesapeake Bay here in Maryland. There's only one bridge.

I-275westcoastfl, you got me on this one! :lol:

I have a better proposal to bridge the Gulf of Mexico. If you were to go straight west from Johns Pass between Treasure Island and Madeira Beach you would end up somewhere on Mustang Island south of Aransas Pass in Texas, which is in the greater Corpus Christi area and the distance covered over open water would be about 900 miles (1440 km), give or take.

Now I would interconnect Interstate 375 in St. Petersburg from its present junction with Interstate 275 (using the ghost ramp that is still there when the highway opened in 1977), head west across St. Petersburg, tunnel underneath the Intracoastal Waterway (so that you would not have to build a high level or drawbridge), cross Madeira Beach or Treasure Island, and then head due west across the Gulf of Mexico using a series of tunnels and high level bridges akin to the Chesapeake Bridge and Tunnel in Virginia. The high level bridges would have to be high enough so that every ship plying the world's seas can pass. Upon making landfall in Texas, have the bridge connect with Interstate 37 (the highway that goes from Corpus Christi to San Antonio).

Pros:

Make the western United States (particularly southern California) more accessible to Florida rather than having to use Interstate 10 east of Texas.

Cons:

900+ miles of open Gulf of Mexico. (Will be the biggest obstacle)
Hazard of hurricanes during hurricane season.
Treacherous ocean depths and high waves.
Service islands built at regular intervals (services for motorists such as food, fuel, lodging) that would have to be built in deep water, and then a breakwater would have to be built to counteract the forces of the open sea.

I believe it would take a engineering feat of extraordinary proportions to construct a crossing of this magnitude.
Haha talk about reviving an old post! 5 years ago.. But yea its very unlikely that would be built and not really feasible. I want to see a bridge network from the area of West Palm Beach to the Bahamas(roughly 50 miles to the first island.)

One that would unite the Antilles. From Cuba to Jamaica and Haiti, there to Dominican Republic and finally Puerto Rico.

Miami to Matanzas

All the oceans. By bridging the continents, John Madden (who won't fly) can become a globetrotter without having to sail for eternity...
To give Sarah Palin an even better view of Russia from Alaska, the Bering strait should be bridged.

I would like to have:

At my country (Sweden):
Kungsbackafjord Bridge - between Onsala and Åsa.
Kvarken Bridge - between Umeå and Vaasa

The rest of the world:
the Bering Strait Bridge
The Gibraltar Bridge

Let's see...what fixed links do I want to see built?

The Fehmarnbelt (Hamburg-Lübeck-København)
Rostock-Køvenhavn
Helsingør-Helsingborg
Stockholm-Norrtälje-Turku-Helsinki
Helsinki-Tallinn
Belfast-Stanraer | Carlisle
| Glasgow
Dover-Calais (auto/HSR bridge; freight and slower services in Chunnel)
Strait of Messina
Kerch Strait
Strait of Gibraltar
Sunda Strait
Strait of Malacca (Indonesia-Malaysia, near Singapore)
Xuwen-Haikou
Hong Kong-Macau
Fuzhou-Taipei
Qingdao-Weihai-Incheon-Seoul
Busan-Fukuoka
Honshu-Hokkaido
Hokkaido-Sakhalin
Mainland-Sakhalin
La Paz (Mex.)-Culiacan
Vancouver-Nanaimo
Belém-Amapa (Bra.)

...are what I can think of at the moment.

Buenos Aires - Colonia (Argentina - Uruguay)!

Bering Straight would also be nice. Imagine driving all the way from South Africa, through Asia and downwards until you reach Argentina and Tierra del Fuego!

there are actually no roads connecting panama and colombia

Argentina - Uruguay
Estonia - Finland
Sri Lanka - India
Florida - Bahamas - Dominican Republic - Puerto Rico - Venezuela (through the caribean islands)
Mexico - Cuba - Haiti - Dominican Republic
Europe - Africa (through Gibraltar)
United Arab Emirates - Iran
Malaysia - Philippines (through the Palawan Island)
Australia - Papua New Guinea - Sulawesi - Borneo - Sumatra
And then, from Sumatra, it becomes two roads, one to Java and another to Maysia
Philippines - Taiwan - China
Italy - Albania
Italy - Sicily
Ireland - Isle of Man - Scotland
Ireland - England - France
Australia - Tasmania
Alaska - Russia

And now... Some bridges I would like to see in my country... Brazil...
Macapá - Belém (through the Marajó Island)
Manaus - Iranduba (under construction) - Manaquin - Borba (From Borba the road could go to Cuiabá)
São Luís - Alcântara
Salvador - Itaparica Island - Santo Antônio de Jesus

Yemen-Yibuti/Eritrea
Oman-Iran
Japan-Russia (Sakhalin)
Russia Mainland-Sakhalin

Some that I can foresee (can be combinations of bridges and tunnels):

-Cape May, NJ across Delaware Bay to Lewes, DE to connect the south end of Garden State Parkway in New Jersey with US 13 in Delaware, completing a bypass route around I-95 and all of the big cities that it passes through south of NYC for north-south east coast USA traffic.
-An island-hopping connection between Anacortes, WA and Vancouver Island, BC.
-Extend I-287 across Long Island Sound between Oyster Bay, NY and Rye, NY.
-Scotland to Northern Ireland.


'Pipe dreams'

-Connect the major Hawaiian Islands from Oahu to the 'Big' island - be able to drive directly on 'I-H1' between Honolulu and Hilo, HI.
-An island-hopping connection between Australia and the Asian mainland.
-Key West, FL to Cuba, then go island-hopping from there to the South American mainland.
-Milwaukee, WI to Muskegan, MI - extend I-96 westward, replacing I-94 to Madison, WI.
-Japan to the Asian mainland via Sakhalin Island. Russia is already planning a connection between the mainland and Sakhalin.
-Extend 'I-287' (now NY 135 - see above) from Long Island across the outer New York Bay to the Sandy Hook, NJ area, further completing the above 'I-95 bypass' and greatly improving access to and from Long Island.

Mike

* Finland - Sweden via Åland islands.
* Spain - Morocco
* Scotland - Northern Ireland
* Sicily - Calabria
* Saarema - Estonian mainland
* Eceabat - Çanakkale (Turkey)
* Kerch Strait Bridge (Ukraine - Russia)

100 km single spans across deep water straits don't seem realistic imo.

Qatar and Bahrain, Qatar and UAE, Qatar and Eastern Saudi Arabia

* Finland - Sweden via Åland islands.


My foremost wet dream.

Although the day a project like this gains wide support here they'll probably go with a tunnel. Wouldn't object.

Would be nice to have a High Speed Rail Tunnel from Alaska to Russia
:cheers:

These bridges I can see being built realisticaly.

A bridge between Long Island and Connecticut
A third bridge across the Chesapeake Bay
A third bridge being built between Detroit and Windsor (since the second one is already proposed).

More important than the Suur väin bridge!

Some for the US

A bridge across Boston Harbor, Hull to Nahant
Long Island-Rhode Island
Long Island-New Haven (Connecticut)
Brooklyn-New Jersey
New Jersey-Delaware over the Delaware Bay
Extra Chesapeake Bay bridges
Bridges across Puget Sound and from Washington State to Vancouver Island, w/ rail link.
Mobile Bay bridge

Most of these have been considered at one point.

The bodies of water i'd most like to see bridged across the Long Island Sound to Connecticut.
Cook Strait-I'm surprised a bridge isn't in the planning stages.
The English Channel possibly at the Strait of Dover it's narrowest point.
Bering Strait
Strait of Messina
Sri Lanka-India
Djibouti-Yemen across the Bab-el-Mandeb.

Bandarabbas (IR) to Qeshm (IR) to Kumza (OM) and towards UAE
Iran Mainland (IR) to Kish (IR)
Kuweit city to Shumeymeh (KUW) over kuweit Bay then continues to:
Buian (KUW) to Arvand Kenar (IR)
And Tabriz- Urmia Over Urmia Lake 15 km is U/C

I would really like to see a bridge across the Hong Kong Victoria harbour... out of interest, does anyone know why a bridge hasn't ever been built across this?

I would like to see a bridge-tunnel system linking Korea to Japan. Actually there are plans to do this (also plans to link Jeju to the peninsula but those plans are just plain stupid -economically-).

I would start the link on Geoje Island (which has recently been bridged and tunneled to Busan, first harbor of Korea) with a tunnel to Tsushima then from Tsushima a road system going to the south where there would be another tunnel to Iki Island and from there a bridge to the japanese mainland.

This would allow to link Goeje (DSME, Samsung Heavy Industries) and Busan (second airport of Korea, first harbor, second biggest city) with Fukuoka and Kitakyushu.

* Finland - Sweden via Åland islands.
,100 km single spans across deep water straits don't seem realistic imo.

45 km is the shortest distance Sweden-Finland (Åland) about the same lenght as the chunnel. So a geographicly possible points to link with bridge/tunnel.

But as London & Paris hold millions of people, Åland is an insignificant island of 23.000 inhabitants. Mainly briefly visited by cruiseship holidaymakers over the weekend. A bridge or tunnel would possibly not generate anymore traffic.

I have lived all my life in Sweden, about 9 years in Stockholm close to Åland, but still I have never visited Åland.

Åland is just convenient to use to reduce bridge length construction costs :)

Åland is just convenient to use to reduce bridge length construction costs :)

There was earlier an organization called The National Planning Office. In 1957, it made a proposal to connect the Åland islands to the mainland by a road. Two alternatives were proposed:

http://www.mattigronroos.fi/Tiet/Lannentie.jpg

The northern alternative was planned to be 95 km of total length between Kustavi and Lumparland. The plan consisted of 24 km of causeways, 2 km of bridges and 8 km of tunnels. The southern alternative would have been more challenging due to the ship routes.

The plan was abandoned by the end of 1960's. The main reason was that the ferry connections were improved: The ferries were fast, reliable, safe, running year-round, and comfortable. In addition, the road would have had a major impact to the very sensitive nature of the archipelago.