NorthAmerican SuperHighway

What do you think are the ramifications of a superhighway?


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bluedog

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I think we are gonna have to spread the wealth and debt... with our NA brothers... the "NAmero Card!". No need for all those bills to clog our wallets and get all wrinkled. I just wind up having to give mine to the kids... let 'em get there own card! Ya think? lol!

Join in, it'll be fun, signed... O'bama.


How about the international "ObamaCard"?:fish:
 

EagleSmack

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American Mobsters helped build Unions here to fight exploitation and yeah, get there kick backs from the workers instead of the companies. Mexican gangs? I wish they would, keep their brothers down there. I don't think that is the plan though.:fish:

Organized Crime didn't build Unions. They exploited them.
 

dumpthemonarchy

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People here had a dreamy idea if Quebec separated, it would somehow drift off into the Atlantic.

Now people here are obsessed with a highway that will somehow squish together 3 countries.

This could relate to people in Ontario having a fear of Mexico. People in BC, where I live are more aware of Mexico due to geography. People here know Tijuana where merchants actually barter over prices with tourists. Imagine, the market is not supreme, all rules imposed from above on a hapless populous.

People from Ontario never drive to Mexico, New York, Atlantic City, Boston, Washington DC, the South, and Florida are in the way here are are too much fun. So ideas of Mexico get easterners hysterical. And to associate Mexico with a highway, that muscular expression of nationalism, well, easterners have fits.

So I love this talk because smug easterners just aren't so sure of things anymore. Mexico doesn't follow the rules as we know them. They are uncertainty personified.
 

petros

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Eactly. So what's the point of a Superhighway to reduce traffic if customs will bring the traffic back anyway?

Besides, don't we have an adequate North American highway system already? If the problem is too much traffic at certain places, then raise the gas tax. It'll solve that problem.
Winnipeg and Regina have both announced their "inland ports and intermodals" where goods come straight off the boat on to train and off to the inland ports for customs inspection and brokering.

There are no customs getting on the highway just until you get off it.

These highways and "inland ports" are international free trade zones. What usually comes along with 'international free trade zones"? Factories with no labour laws and ****loads of immigrants to fill those jobs.
 

darkbeaver

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Jan 26, 2006
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That is the whole point. It is not rail. It is fast and economical. Ever try to ship some thing by rail? You will be old and grey long before you get your produce. We recently had a large machine trucked from Orlando Fa. to B.C. It cost $30000 and took a week. Rail was about $22000 and would have been two months. Ship was cheapest but would have been next century before we got it.

That is not the whole point. Rail has been allowed to degrade for nearly fifty years to sell fuel tires vehicles batteries and asphalt and houses in the suburbs complete with malls and churches. There is no more efficient method of mass transportation of goods and people
 

bluedog

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International Nickel Company - now Vale Inco. Recently taken over by a Brazillian company. Half their people are out of work due to the recession and facing bleak prospects now that Voiceys Bay open pit mine is producing lower sulphur-content ores - and as of Sunday are on strike to retain nickel bonuses and pension packages.
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This brother Lone wolf is where I would like to take advantage of any/all Canadien press and media outlets. Can you and/or everyone let me have the names of their favorite and most untrusted news sources in your country?

I look forward to exploring. Does the AP amd UPI control 80% of what you read up there as well? Are there broadreaching arms of a similar ilk that provide a "uniform" message to the people? BBC I imagine homoginizes much of the content. Are they trusted in the Great North as gospel? Any others, french? I am guessing.

Thank You:fish:
 

lone wolf

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It might interest you to know that prior to the sale of Inco to Vale of Brazil, there was a lot more concern about the pending sale to Phelps Dodge of Arizona. Too many people up here have seen Canadian companies vanish into an American giant only to disappear completely - lock, stock and barrel - when protectionist flags go up. Weyerhauser in Sturgeon Falls comes easily to mind.
 
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bluedog

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It might interest you to know that prior to the sale of Inco to Vale of Brazil, there was a lot more concern about the pending sale to Phelps Dodge of Arizona. Too many people up here have seen Canadian companies vanish into an American giant only to disappear completely - lock, stock and barrel - when protectionist flags go up. Weyerhauser in Sturgeon Falls comes easily to mind.
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I have no doubt brother lonewolf, no doubt whatsoever!
Our conglomerates are ruling and ruining the world. We may make government alliances but the corporations decide who trades what! All in pursuit of a dollar, worth less and less as time goes by.

Now it is the banking system worldwide that MUST open their books so as to be dissected. Our government has requested an offshore bank to open its books this week in Antigua. To see how these billionaire get rich schemers have lodged their money and hidden it from the return to the victims of their evil selfishness.

I agree with you.:fish:
 

normbc9

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If you want tosee the big plan of which this is only a small pavestone of go to your search engine and enyer "North American Cooperative Security Agreement." The if you want to see the updates (the name keeps changing) then enter "North American Union." In my opinion the big sponsors are the Council on Foreign Relations and another huge Trade Group. Both are interested in money and power and it comes from our pockets. While the Super Highway by itself appears to be a harmless step it is a part of a bigger political move.
 

YukonJack

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"Besides, don't we have an adequate North American highway system already? If the problem is too much traffic at certain places, then raise the gas tax. It'll solve that problem."

No, WE do not have an adequate highway system. Meaning Canada.

South of the 49th, you can travel from Bangor to San Diego without a trafic light to hinder you.

You can do the same from Boston to Seattle.
Or Seattle to Miami.
Or Miami to Los Angeles.

Yet here in Canada one can not go by a single community (with the possible exception of Kenora, ON) without slowed down with traffic lights, unreasonable speed limits, meddling cops, inconveniently located gas stations, sad lack of motels and restaurants from Halifax to Vancouver. On the glorious Trans-Canada Highway.

Our Trans-Canada Highway, a Major Mickey Mouse, Two-Lane dirt road, loaded with traffic lights, lacking with convenient gas stops, restaurants and motes is a National disgrace! Name just one sane person travelling from Toronto to Vancouver who would be soft-minded to take it!

If the presence of a North-South Highway would spur the creation of a genuine Trans-Canada Highway, I am all for it.
 
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ironsides

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This Super Highway would give you the ability cut down to the States do do a faster cross country trip. Just one advantage.

Don't worry about the Mexican truck drivers, they cannot travel thru the U.S. freely anymore.
 

YukonJack

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ironsides, from Toronto to Winnipeg, I WILL take thre Trans-Canada.

From Toronto to anywhere in Canada, West of Winnipeg, I take the Interstate roads across the States.

Done it time and time again.
 

lone wolf

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It might interest you to know the Trans Canada Highway does not go through Toronto or the GTA. In fact, at its closest point - the junction of Hwys 7 & 12 - it is some 50 miles northeast of Steeles Avenue.
 

ironsides

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ironsides, from Toronto to Winnipeg, I WILL take thre Trans-Canada.

From Toronto to anywhere in Canada, West of Winnipeg, I take the Interstate roads across the States.

Done it time and time again.


I am surprised, I haven't been to Canada in years, and when I was it was between Montreal Toronto and Quebec. Just assumed you had a National Hwy system similar to ours.
 

YukonJack

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"It might interest you to know the Trans Canada Highway does not go through Toronto or the GTA. In fact, at its closest point - the junction of Hwys 7 & 12 - it is some 50 miles northeast of Steeles Avenue."

Semantics wins the argument.

What I meant to, say was that if you plan to travel from Toronto to a destination in Canada, West of Winnipeg, if you have any brains you cross into the States and use their superior Interstate highways.
 

YukonJack

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ironsides, the Windsor-Toronto-Montreal-Quebec City corridor in Canada is every bit as good and sophisticated as any portion of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway system in the United States.

Beyond that? Major Mickey Mouse!
 

lone wolf

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"It might interest you to know the Trans Canada Highway does not go through Toronto or the GTA. In fact, at its closest point - the junction of Hwys 7 & 12 - it is some 50 miles northeast of Steeles Avenue."

Semantics wins the argument.

What I meant to, say was that if you plan to travel from Toronto to a destination in Canada, West of Winnipeg, if you have any brains you cross into the States and use their superior Interstate highways.

And to this, having rolled many a mile under my butt on long hauls, I agree whole-heartedly. A standard system of weight classifications and axle loadings would make inter-provincial trucking soooo much easier.
 

taxslave

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And to this, having rolled many a mile under my butt on long hauls, I agree whole-heartedly. A standard system of weight classifications and axle loadings would make inter-provincial trucking soooo much easier.

There are some simple things that would make transportation quicker and cheaper. Like allowing superBs everywhere and take union featherbedding out of long distant transport.