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Originally Posted by Oliver Klozov
Interesting - Yes for me but there's nothing there really other than the dam and the lake.
Widely used - Very unlikely. For anybody currently using 5 to Kamloops and 97 to the Okanagan would continue using that - a lot less time and there's services. Northern Alberta to West Kootenays - just can't see that much demand.
And there would be no commercial traffic.
You might have a slightly better case if you tried to justify building a road from Valemount to Donald but not much.
What I would see as more probable would be a rail line from the CP at Beavermouth to the CN at Valemount with CP getting trackage rights on CN to Prince Rupert but still that's a low probability in the near future. You could also build a connection from the BNSF at Eureka, Montana to the CP near Jaffray, BC and give BNSF haulage rights from there to Prince Rupert as well.
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Even then, I wonder if there would be the demand. Currently the CN option is to go through Edmonton and use the Yellowhead Pass.
On the same line of thinking as extending Hwy 23 to Hwy 5, I’ve wondered if there would be the appetite or demand to extend Hwy 9 from Harrison Hot Springs to Hwy 99 near Pemberton?
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