Is the Proposed Trans Global Highway a solution for future population concerns and global warming?

One excellent solution to future population concerns as well as alleviating many of the effects of potential global warming is the Frank Didik proposal for the construction of the “Trans Global Highway”. The Didik proposed Trans Global Highway would create a world wide network of standardized roads, railroads, water pipe lines, oil and gas pipelines, electrical and communication cables. The result of this remarkable, far sighted project will be global unity through far better distribution of resources, including heretofore difficult to obtain or unaccessible raw materials, fresh water, finished products and lower global transportation costs.

With greatly expanded global fresh water distribution, arid lands could be cultivated resulting in a huge abundance of global food supplies. The most conservative estimate is that with the construction of the Trans Global Highway, the planet will be able to feed several billion more people, using presently available modern farming technologies. With the present global population of just under 7 billion people and at the United Nations projection of population increase, the world will produce enough food surpluses to feed the expected increased population for several hundred years.

Thomas Robert Malthus’s famous dire food shortage predictions of 1798 and his subsequent books, over the next 30 years, failed to take into consideration modern advances in farming, transportation, food storage and food abundance. Further information on the proposed Trans Global Highway can be found at http://www.TransGlobalHighway.com .

How do you say “All Aboard” in Mandarin?

Meanwhile, Michigan has probably torn up 300 miles of rail and sold the scrap to. . . China!

Bob

We have here a paradox; America used to have trains, electric and diesel and even some steam like North Westerns’s 400 and Milwaukee Hiawathas that ran through small towns at 100 per. What we also had then, neglected by Mr. Engel & AECOM, was a very comprehensive matrix of rail mains, secondaries, branches, and local Interurban Electric Railways. This rail “SYSTEM” of the pre-freeway era was crucial, and made the rarer high-speed scheduling both technically and politically (& Economically) natural.

Mr. Engel (AECOM) would help the HSR cause immensely and the HSR scheme potential for success, by engaging the country in generic railway upgrade discussion. Talk to energy authorities like Richard Heinberg and Jim Woolsey and people like Ann Mesnifkoff at The Sierra Club, etc.

Rebuilding the dormant rail branchlines and adding container/trailer handling facilities at several hundred strategic points enroute main rail trunks is part of this energy emergency scenario. Unlikely? Think again… Looking at the next act in the Oil Interregnum, Federal Executive Emergency Orders for motor fuel rationing, and generic railway expansion is suddenly the most natural step we can take!

America is big enough to support selected HSR projects. For the other 90% of the population, engaging assistance from reformed Army/Guard Railroad Operating & Mantenance Battalions is means to expedite priority (agricultural/necessity of life goods) dormant branch lines. Interested parties and responsibles with initiative, see spv.co.uk for US Rail Map Volumes for your respective locale, and learn the rail territory, past & present.

Renewable Energy Generation and railway? See Christopher C. Swan’s page: “Suntrain Transportation Corporation” and book “ELECTRIC WATER” (New Society Press,2007).

-Keep “Em Rolling”- Godspeed, Mr. Engel!