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Originally Posted by Ozabald
To be fair, there is tourist traffic in the summer for St Andrews. There must be some political pull on both sides of the border that St. Stephen/Calais have three border crossings.
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Two of those border crossings are old and grandfathered. The third crossing was built specifically for the new highway.
Don't get me wrong. I like Irving's Highway. It is a true pleasure to drive on, and ensures you can make it to Bangor ME from Moncton in slightly less than four hours. I just wish they would finish up the necessary highway work in eastern NB too.
I often wonder what American tourists think, wending their way for 90 minutes or so along the old Airline Route in eastern Maine, only to get to the border and be confronted with one of the nicest highways on the continent when they cross into Canada. They must feel like they've entered some form of bizarro universe.