Currently North and South America have no infrastructure connection. Instead there is a big wild area between the two continents and no one has built a highway or rail yet.
As part of improving infrastructure there should be highway and road construction project to connect the Americas and allow more economic and tourism growth. Sup Forums what do you think about the darien gap crisis and should it be solved now that FARC rebels in the area are peaceful?
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Map of the area. Right now it is very sparsely populated and in extreme poverty. No infrastructure exists and travel is primitive.
>American tax money going towards infrastructure in Panama
Fuck yourself.
There’s monsters, hidden tribes, guerillas and more in there, why bother?
Just build a ferry, easier, environmentally friendly and no monsters
Fuck it f.am, just drop the car and paddle it
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The point of the road is that it will cause illegal lumbering and clear the forest around it. Fucking up the natural life of the primitive tribes and forcing it to advance.
Also the only point of such a road or connection would be tourism. Meaning people will want to drive through the area to see it.
Unironically this, there's no need to build anything there other than an autist fixation with the Panamerican highway. It should be kept as a nature reserve.
Everything in your post is objectively bad
What about future rail project once the road is done though?
Ferrys are cumbersome.
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Maintaining the ferry sistem is cheaper and less risky than making a pointless highway that also goes into nowhere in Colombia
>preserving poverty and squalor when it can be a good tourism drive
>muh economy
Leave the fucking trees alone reeeeeeeee
>clear the forest to build road
>evict a ton of people
>destroy biodiversity of the region
>harm local economy
>deal with guerillas while building
>possible attack by monsters
>destroy tourism, since its draw is untamed dangerous jungle and you take that away
It’s just a waste of money, you can ship stuff from the canal and it’d be much cheaper and easier than driving through an impassable swamp
Nuke it
>possible attack by monsters
Tell me more about the monsters
There’s already places, safe places, where you can go around in a jungle.
There’s no reason to destroy Darien Gap so Cletus and his family can go drive around it, throwing trash and harming the ecosystem
It's just South Americans being retarded
Any monsters would be in the Amazon not the Darien Gap
Americans are the fucking worst
colombians
To connect north and south america?
To create the longest highway in the world?
To promote tourism and economic development?
A road or rail won't destroy an entire jungle.
>going to lengths to build roads in an extremely difficult place to do so
>while also destroying diversity
>in a world where ferries and planes exist
It's not like the only alternative to move from point A to point B is either a car or a train
Shamans and witches, Amerindian juju
Lots of poisonous critters, spiders, snakes, colorful frogs, scorpions
And
Fragmented forests are shite
You don't fucking destroy one of the most bio-diverse places in the planet just because muh ongest highway or whatever. Stop being so retarded for once.
>To connect north and south america?
You're saying that as if currently it was literally impossible to move between the two.
>To create the longest highway in the world?
Only useful for dickwaving purposes, I'd want way more than that for the government to spend muh taxes
>To promote tourism and economic development?
See first. If you were really looking forward to visiting let's say Colombia or Venezuela, and the only reason you don't is because there's a gap on the highway system, you clearly were not interested or invested enough for it. Also, it's cheaper to move by plane if distances are greater than 1000km. A fully booked flight is even more fuel efficient than a car.
OP cares deeply about a bad idea
South America is to Panama
AS Mexico is to the United States.
Pretty simple really.
Panama has a Green Wall that Trump could only ever dream about.
(pretty simple really)
theres little road left to build in order to close, we just wont build it. bad inmigration, mad cow down south. endangered unesco world heritage.
south america moves cargo by boats anyways. airplane tickets to colombia from here are less than 300 .
colombia is our mexico
btw nooone would go driving from usa to south america anyways... unless you want to get beheaded in mexico
You are as dumb as OP
Why not want economic development and infrastructure development?
A big highway throughout Americas will foster tourism and other things. Saying "get on a boat" is ludicrous.
Tunnel / raised platforms etc.
The Darien is a ecological reserve man
You can't destroy them that's why they are reserves
There is no need for a road there, please understand that.
Many people already do that journey and the Darien gap ain't an issue, it would be a road in the middle of nowhere ridden with drug trafficking from Colombia to Panama
>build infrastructure project
>hire PMC blackwater to protect and kill unwanted people around it
>economies grow
>create a culture of "backpack from canada to Argentina along the America's Highway" with lots of tourist traps along the way to fuck brown prostitutes and stuff.
Think past 1 year away. You build the road and illegal lumbering and shit starts to happen. Soon it's clear around the road and you can see rebels/guerillas far away or have drones blow them up.
It's about setting up for the upgrade of the region as time passes. This is like step 1 towards step 50 which is a nice waterfront resort locations and tourism with private military people killing anyone who fucks with it.
>letting this little fucking gap stop so much advancement.
We need to complete it. 60 fucking miles of road.
stfu mexishit
>muh ecosystem
Good post
Shut up, OP. You've convinced nobody.
>original route goes from Mexico to Argentina
Fuck of yankee
*gets shot*
>wanting a link between north and south
Asking for trouble OP.
I live 4300 km from Las Vegas.
>destroy tourism, since its draw is untamed dangerous jungle and you take that away
Sot people go to the other jungles that are more developed for tourism
Fuck no, we'd get littered with centracas (only C ricans are acceptable as they actually have a really similar genepool to ours but still it's not worth the risk. Thanks, but no thanks.
So tldr you want to kill nature so you can drive through the area?
There are already plans for a connection and there have been for decades. There just isn't political will to do so. People also protest the damage it would do to the environment. Though I agree with your proposal, it's actually part of a world wide spanning highway and rail system plan. Also included would be a bearing straight crossing as well as a Gibraltar crossing. You should look up the plans for it, it's pretty cool.
How can you look at primitive 0 GDP areas of the world and not want to build shit there? The land is of amazing value. USA could conquer the fucking entire gap area in like a day. Hell we should be negotiating with Panama to buy it all
question: why? you get better results from travling by plane and trading via boat
name a country that uses ferry instead of roads between coastal cities.