This highway is like the Amero currency, it's not going far.
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:
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.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.
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.
******************************************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.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>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.
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.
"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.