General Mung Beans
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Why is it on almost every alternate history is there a Nicaraguan Canal rather then the Panama Canal? Why not Honduras Canal or Chiapas Canal?
Why is it on almost every alternate history is there a Nicaraguan Canal rather then the Panama Canal? Why not Honduras Canal or Chiapas Canal?
There's one other alternative which I think I saw in a Tony Jones TL - building a huge megaproject overland route where ships are lifted out of the water and transported across the isthmus on gigantic railtracks. Proposed in OTL I believe.
By that logic, why not a Transmexican or Transamerican canal? A Nicaragua canal would be much simpler than any of those.Why not Honduras Canal or Chiapas Canal?
Are there any TL with both canals? that could be interesting... I take it the other side of the sinai peninsula is too mountainous?
Are there any TL with both canals? that could be interesting... I take it the other side of the sinai peninsula is too mountainous?
I'd say if there are 2 near-hegemons in the Americas you would have gotten both built. Say a nation on rougly the same level as the US in terms of population and per-capitata GNP forming in South America. Have both have a rivalry but not big wars and both would want to control a canal rather than have their shipping rely on a canal controlled by the other.Are there any TL with both canals? that could be interesting... I take it the other side of the sinai peninsula is too mountainous?
....That'd be thre Suez Canal you're thinking of, there, not the Panama Canal. I can see how you might confuse Central America with the Middle East, though. No, actually, I don't think I can. Never mind. As for two canals, it's hard to justify that economicaly, unless the traffic volume is larger than OTL by a good margin. Even in the present, we really only can justify expanding the Panama canal, not building a whole new one.
I didn't get them confused I asked a) Are there TLs with both Nicaragua and Panama and b) Is the others side of the Sinai penisula to mounatainous for a canal there.