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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
Given the abomination of the highway system in BC, that's quite a claim!!!
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Umm, Manitoba has very favorable topography for building highways, and yet it doesn’t have a single stretch of true fully controlled access freeway. That automatically makes it the worst IMO.
Also, for all of its flaws BC does have around 400 or 500 km of full freeway.
Building the Coquihalla, the Sea to Sky, the 97 on cliff sides along the Okanagan Lake, through the Yoho Canyon, etc... are all very very technically challenging and expensive. Not to mention mega structures such as the Port Mann Bridge, Alex Fraser Bridge, Golden Ears Bridge, etc... which Manitoba largely does not need to construct.
The new Pattullo Bridge alone will cost 1.3 billion for example. How many km of full freeway could that build near Winnipeg?
And while BC does need to make massive improvements to its highway network I would argue that it does have western Canada’s two best freeway segments, the #1 from 200th in Langley to the Cassiar Tunnel and the Coquihalla from Hope to Kamloops.
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