Canada's Potential Future Infrastructure.

[Razor]

I'm all in for expanding our infrastructure, as long as it's done responsibly.

I can just imagine a medium to long term future, where the HS rail corridor from QC to at least Toronto gets completed, and pipelines to both coasts are completed..No thanks to climate change, I can also see a future where Churchill Manitoba has a deep sea port running most of the year. Anything else you can see in your maple leaf covered crystal ball coming into fruition?

[Innsertnamehere]

A good short term one will be the unification of the central and eastern Canadian freeway systems with the completion of Autoroute 85. With that done you will be able to drive from Windsor to Antigonish continuously on freeways, a distance of over 2,000 kilometres. It's not a small feat, and it should happen this year!

Now if we could get a 4-lane road from Alberta through to Vancouver (and eventually across Canada!)..

[SignalHillHiker]

Whatever any government can get approved to link Hamilton through Quebec City, I'll support.

And then if we get any nation-building bribes... twinning the TCH across the island, completing the highway through Quebec/Labrador to our Great Northern Peninsula, a constitutional amendment allowing our primary ferry to Canada to be relocated to at least Argentia, but ideally Conception Bay South or Bay Bulls. If I'm not flying, I'd much rather be on the ferry for two days than drive across the fucking island. It is TORTURE. The highway crosses the interior. Nothing worth seeing is less than a 1.5 hour drive off it down some provincial route.

I'd like to see us aggressively push, and Canada to agree, that significant national defense infrastructure should be invested in Newfoundland and Labrador. Canada's Halifax-only Atlantic defenses pre-date our joining. They date to a time when Canada's Atlantic access was almost nothing, a little sliver between us and the United States. Canada should be spending a lot more as it has a much bigger Atlantic coast now, and it should be basing a lot of that in Happy Valley-Goose Bay and St. John's.

[Architype]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Whatever any government can get approved to link Hamilton through Quebec City, I'll support.

And then if we get any nation-building bribes... twinning the TCH across the island, completing the highway through Quebec/Labrador to our Great Northern Peninsula, a constitutional amendment allowing our primary ferry to Canada to be relocated to at least Argentia, but ideally Conception Bay South or Bay Bulls. If I'm not flying, I'd much rather be on the ferry for two days than drive across the fucking island. It is TORTURE. The highway crosses the interior. Nothing worth seeing is less than a 1.5 hour drive off it down some provincial route.

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I am inclined to agree with this more now than I used to. On this map I estimated the driving distance between St. John's and Montreal, using Google maps. The black line (measure distance tool) shows the travel distance as a bit shorter (2352 km) than the actual existing southern route (2533 km, blue line), but this is somewhat inaccurate, since an actual highway might take a longer route, and be of lower grade. Inevitably, I think this will happen, and the travel time involved might be competitive between the two. The northern route has a much shorter ferry run (1 hr 45 minutes versus 5 to 7 hours ), which would also save some time (weather permitting).



However, I don't agree with CBS or Bay Bulls being favorable points for a mainland ferry. Argentia is a much more reasonable choice, being only a 90 minute drive from St. John's.

[MonctonRad]

It is also high time that we has a completed road along the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence as well. Improved connectivity would allow for improved prosperity and economic growth. It would also be good for the Northern Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland too.

While I would expect the traditional TCH route to Newfoundland to remain by far the more popular way to get to the island, there is no question that this will benefit the local economies in the area, and, I am sure at least some tourists would be interested in doing the "Great Circle Route" in travelling to and from the island.