http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/ Canadian roads and highways Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:51 GMT Stephane Dumas http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26048 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26048 At this point I would probably just renumber the whole thing 400. The 406, for instance, still has a 2-lane section in Welland, and there have been other Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:27:49 GMT captainbeowulf http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26047 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26047 ... I largely agree with Rick, but I just want to add that - as with a road system - sometimes you have to think about transit as a network, rather than simply Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:17:19 GMT captainbeowulf http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26046 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26046 ... At this point I would probably just renumber the whole thing 400. The 406, for instance, still has a 2-lane section in Welland, and there have been other Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:05:29 GMT Rick Perez http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26045 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26045 Up until now, I was unfamiliar with the man, but comparing your description of him to Wikipedia's makes you sound just as extremist. Perhaps Canadian Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:08:23 GMT flowersongbird06 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26044 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26044 It appears it will be signed as Highway 69 as long as it is discontinuous from the 400 southern part. The section around Nobel is supposed to open next year Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:40:47 GMT captainbeowulf http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26043 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26043 Here's another RAQS that we missed: looks like we should see an EA site coming up soon for a new highway 17 freeway westwards to around Espanola. It's still Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:06:58 GMT captainbeowulf http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26042 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26042 http://news.ontario.ca/mndmf/en/2009/11/highway-69-expanded-between-sudbury-and-estaire.html Highway 69 Expanded Between Sudbury and Estaire November 12, 2009 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:08:36 GMT captainbeowulf http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26041 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26041 ... I agree with Guy here - and I think in part you get guys on the right like Wendel Cox because various people on the left have been stridently pushing the Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:25:43 GMT o773r http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26040 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26040 ... Precisely. That's not to say that parts of his 'Autobahn' dream are not good ideas for Canada, it's just that Cox is fighting his own reputation here. Most Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:21:29 GMT gofastrrr http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26039 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26039 ... And a lot less bitter, biased language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Cox I'm not a fan of right-wing politics, but I would have to say that I agree Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:03:38 GMT i42 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26038 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26038 Uh, Wendell Cox is a rabid pro-car anti-planning anti-transit anti- social-responsibility nutcase who is a master of twisting numbers to create "statistics" Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:53:23 GMT gofastrrr http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26037 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26037 ... Care to elaborate? Guy Olsen, PE(NJ), PTOE Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:18:59 GMT dmuzika http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26036 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26036 The author has some good ideas, but I agree that because of Canada's small population density, we can't construct freeways for the sake of freeways. There are Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:47:45 GMT o773r http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26035 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26035 ... Too bad the article is coming from Wendel Cox. Nobody is going to take it seriously. Personally, I have some reservations towards that report. I don't Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:39:55 GMT captainbeowulf http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26034 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/canroads/message/26034 What is seldom considered in these arguments is that Canada probably has one of - if not the - lowest population densities of all developed countries (G7, G8,