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Originally Posted by jmt18325
Canada is a large sparsely populated country. There's no way we should be paying for multi lane freeways in the middle of nowhere, when there is better use for that money in corridors that actually need the money.
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I don't think you understand the reasoning behind why it's important to build the same quality of freeways in sparsely populated areas as it is in urban areas. One of the reasons our productivity and thus standard of living is so much lower than in the U.S. is because of our pathetic national highway system. If you can't get goods to market in a timely matter you can't be competitive. Time is money and that simple fact is a major reason why goods tend to cost so much here. In the western U.S. there are large stretches of multilane Interstates that go through the middle of nowhere so why should we be any different? Trucks shipping items to various destinations often have to go through such areas so why should we make the trip take longer than necessary and often more dangerous? You think we're saving money that way but that is dead wrong. We are wasting a ton of money being cheap and stupid. The best and most important national infrastructure project we could undertake right now would be to build a series of limited access freeways across this country. Not only would it do wonders for the economy it would actually help link us together.
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