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SW Saskatchewan | Hay, just a question.
With the economic slow down, is the concept of hauling stuff from here to there and back again going to fall?
"Free Trade" became the mystical snake oil that was going to cure all ills, and if it came about, we were going to need all these transportation enlargements. The TX corridor was just the largest and most visible of a lot of "California Dreamin".
In Canada we have our own expansions- inland ports to clear coastal congestion of containers- haul them a thousand miles inland to sort and ship back! Extensions of US Interstates and corridors to ease the passage of transnational trucks running from Canada to Mexico. A Saskatchewan-Denver highway route is the latest.
For years in Canada we would ship goods across 1500 miles of rock and shield from western to eastern Canada and vice versa when the simple path was American trade - sell into close American markets, buy in close American markets. Now it seems that the transAmerica route has replaced the TransCanada route as a way to put miles on the road.
Sometimes I think when we all buy into a concept nobody stops to examine it. The "hundred mile diet" of the greenies just won't fly but when it costs $4.50 a mile for a truck it contains a grain of truth.
Tell me hard times are going to bring a bit of intelligence to some of this. | |
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Trans TX Corridor?
