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Originally Posted by Carboy15
Hwy 39 is a connector route to Minot and Bismarck. They are both huge cities. That would create a trade route for the USA too, not just Canada.
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There are no large American cities remotely close to where 39 crosses the border, not to mention the largest city it passes through in Canada is Moose Jaw. Denver is over 12 hours away, and until you reach that city, Williston,ND with 30,000 people is the largest city one will encounter.
At least with the Winnipeg, it was considered a major centre for trade in the 60s when the did I-29, and it is less than 8 hours from Minneapolis-St.Paul (3.6 Million), runs through Fargo-Moorhead (300,000), Sioux Falls (300,000), Omaha (960,000), and Kansas City (2,400,000).
The other major prairie crossing would be hwy 4 in Alberta, which connects through Edmonton and Calgary (via QE2), each having a population of over 1,500,000. In the USA, I-15 runs through Great Falls, Helena, and Idaho Falls, before reaching Salt Lake City (metro area 2,700,000), then Las Vegas (2,300,000), San Bernardino-Riverside (4,200,000) and finally San Diego (3,500,000).