[thewave46]

The disappointing bit is that there's significant low-hanging improvements in connecting our cities in the West. It probably is one of the glaring weaknesses in our national infrastructure.

Interchanges replacing high-risk at-grade intersections on the Trans-Canada, a divided highway from Calgary to Vancouver. These are tangible improvements that could benefit places long neglected by the federal government, especially in light of the large investments made by the federal government for industry and infrastructure in the east.

The benefit from huge investment in highways in the eastern portion of the country is much lower now as much of the lowest hanging fruit has been mostly harvested already.

It's one thing if we're doing high-speed rail with Europe-like investment and making this sort of statement with respect to highways, but we're kind of doing neither.