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Originally Posted by Good Baklava
I’m originally from Restigouche county, to be frank I don’t think the region would benefit from twinning aside from improved safety. If anything that project would destroy its own economic value given how much the population has declined and the existence of a railway for freight whose demand could be cannibalized. For most travelling west it’s much faster to go through Edmundston. Liberal plans for twinned highways going north just seem like pandering to their voter base, fiscally speaking Higgs is right. If the north saw the start of an economic miracle things could be different, but it’s a long way to reaching a 1960s level of population.
Matapédia is a nice region I’ve travelled through every couple years or so. I have similar reasons for being a skeptic on a 4 lane wide 132, but it would definitely be more expensive. I don’t think they would go past Amqui for such a project, probably not even past Rimouski for the 20. Between the river, mountains and a small amount of traffic, it would be as advisable as a 4 lane Cabot Trail.
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I wonder if such a 4-lane divided freeway will boost tourism though. (Once Atlantic Canada is "reopened", that is.) I find N.B.-2 boring after Freddy... Plus, with the wooded median, every U-turn spot can give me a mini heart attack...