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A Canadian autobahn

28 Oct 2009

The author of this study has worked independently and the opinions expressed are therefore their own, and do not necessarily refl ect the opinions of the board of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. [...] China is devel- the Manitoba-Ontario border, between oping a system that will eventually equal the Sudbury and Parry Sound, and much of length of the world’s most extensive system, the route between the Alberta border and which is in the United States. [...] These roads go second longest in the world, at more than by a variety of names, such as motorways 60,000 kilometres as of the end of 2008.4 in the United Kingdom, autoroutes in By 2020, the China motorway system is France and Quebec, autobahns in Germany, likely to be as extensive as that of the expressways in China and interstates or United States and will extend virtually from freeways in the Un [...] The third partner in NAFTA, Mexico, is proceeding with the development of motorways from the centre of the nation to the U. S. border. [...] SERIES THE CANADIAN AUTOBAHN Canada should follow the economic devel- The Canadian Autobahn would include the opment examples already set by the following components (Figure 2, at right): European Union, Japan, the United States 1. Transcontinental route: The fi rst priority and China and develop a world-class nation- would be the upgrading to motorway al highway system (principally motorway).
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Authors

Cox, Wendell

Pages
25
Published in
Canada

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