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Originally Posted by thefishingnut
The impetus for the new road is truck traffic, not cars. Cutting a few hours off the trip from the Maritimes to central Canada for transport trucks would be huge.
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Indeed. The Trans-Maine is presumably for Irving Oil trucks and their forestry trucks in central and northern Maine. Another big plus would be tourist traffic between Quebec and the Francophone areas of New Brunswick. This would be most evident in summer tourism driving. There are apparently a good number of people that drive here in the summer from Quebec as is.
Personally i'd drive the highway quite often if Montreal was only six/seven hours away.
