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Originally Posted by Dalreg
REAL Trans Canada that doesn't meander around NW Ontario and Lake Superior? you want a trillion dollar bridge crossing the lake as an Alternative? Not too many options mate....
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That was a figure of speech, not a recommendation to build a causeway across Lake Superior.
A metaphor to indicate that the TCH is a horse-and-buggy path between Winnipeg (technically Falcon Lake) and Sudbury (technically Denlou). It's not safe, it's not a good option for commercial traffic, and it's not very worthy of being our National Highway. Most significantly, it forces most people driving from Eastern Canada to Western Canada and vice versa to drive through the USA, on their better limited-access interstates. National security, anyone?
There are improvements in the works, like the painfully slow twinning of the TCH from the MB-ON border to Kenora, and project from Thunder Bay up towards Nipigon, but those are almost cosmetic compared to the endless stretches around North Superior, the long stretch from Kenora to TB, and most of the drive from Sault Ste. Marie to Sudbury. How about a bypass around SSM rather than all traffic being forced to drive through shopping malls?
The highway does do a lot of meandering and winding because of the terrain and geography, but that's not the issue. Give me a winding 4-lane highway worthy of the status of a national highway and I'll enjoy the scenic twists and turns.
Sometimes pain is the best teacher. I almost wish that Trump would hard cut off all point-to-point inter-Canadian transit through the US, which is something he is nutty enough to try. Imagine if ALL inter-Canadian travel was forced to drive our current TCH to move our goods from east to west and vice versa; that might convince the naysayers to invest in finishing up this highway and making it driveable. Maybe it has to come to that...
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