Construction of the Pharaonic railroad linking China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan begins
- This CKU pathway is a mythical project, in the direct sense of the word, apparently coherent and desirable, but without the possibility to do it outside the nightmares world, so far. I thought I would never see that.
Last week, the simultaneous oculus of all China's official media made it clear: The decision to build the CKU rail is already firm. The appearance, together with Presidents Zhaparov and Mirziyoyev at the telematics event of the signing of Xi, which involved the unanimity of the Chinese media, showed the implementation of the project of the new CKU rail, Txina-Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan, whose construction works will begin in the autumn of this year. And I lost the bet I made, because I thought I would never see that.
CKU is a mythical project, in the direct sense of the word: apparently coherent and desirable, but without the possibility to do it outside the nightmares world, at least so far. The worst geographic barrier on the Silk Historic Road was the Tian Shan/Tengri Tagh chain, as reality showed that it was also rebellious for modern land transport.
Long before the implementation of the Xi's New Silk Road, the idea of uniting the Xinjiang Tarim basin with the Fergana Valley in Central Asia, which the Historic Road had to travel with a great and ungentle return environment, was very old. But political obstacles, especially in the past, and the scandalous engineering problems, have always made longing present in the world of dreams. So far.
Now, although the decision has been taken, only a few qualities of the project have been published: that it will unite the three countries that point to the acronym; 523 kilometres (but how!) It will have the new routes; it will connect the main city of western Xinjiang with the Kaxgar and Uzbekistan Spheres, to those which will connect with the existing roads, passing through Kyrgyzstan's Oxetik. And it's done.
All the spectacle remains where and how the project should go through the succession of the dominants. Among other things, it is clear that a large tunnel and a building of bridges will be needed... in a significant part of the railway line to be built at a height of between 2,000 and 3,000 metres. And when it ends, what economic and social impact it can have, not only between territories that directly interrelate them, but also in trade between wider environments, etc.
It's a pharaonic work, shaver.
It is true that among us, when the works of the pharaohs are mentioned, the pyramids do not occur to us anymore, or that the expressions are pejorative. But we will have to remember that with them the Canal of the Pharaohs was also built, perhaps the most prolific infrastructure work of ancient times...
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