Don't look now but someone sees it as an excuse for satire. To say it has bombed...is an understatement.
Posted at 2007-08-02 11:00:26 [PermaLink]I hate to ruin a good anti-George Bush conspiracy, but in 1993 working in Manitoba, I was involved with a meeting involving the Province and transportation types, along with various U.S.States, and the Federal US gov't.(gas taxes in U.S. are pledged to highways). As Nafta was recently agreed, the parties were developing a mid continent thru way system to link Canada to Mexico. It has proceed apace exactly as envisaged. (oh, I forgot Clinton was Pres.)
Posted at 2007-08-02 11:09:53 [PermaLink]The NAFTA highway is pretty much built and its called I69 and goes no where near Minnie. What the hell would they want to bring in from Winnipeg anyway
Posted at 2007-08-02 12:11:48 [PermaLink]A couple of years back the Globe and Mail did a sensational piece on the extension of I-69 from Indiana to Texas, ballyhooing that route (which begins at Sarnia) as the great NAFTA expressway that will suck all life as we know it out of Canada. How many of these imaginary ultrahighways are there? And if you wanted to build one, why would it go to Thunder Bay, as I-35 would?
Posted at 2007-08-02 12:14:23 [PermaLink]This guys needs to get an education... Minneapolis is nowhere near where a major route would have to be. I mean, come on! Most of the goods in Canada go through one of two places: BC and Ontario. Why? Because BC is the gateway to Asian marketplaces and Ontario is the doorway for almost all of East AND Central Canada.
Conspiracy theorists should really take cold showers before opening their pie-holes.
It used to be the quasi-fascist right that muttered on and on about "black helicopters" and the like...
Now, it's the quasi-fascist left that matters about "Nafta superighways"
sheesh
At least no one has claimed that it was caused by global warming (at least yet) unlike when the slab of marble fell off of the BMO building in Toronto.
Posted at 2007-08-02 12:46:29 [PermaLink]"...four football-fields-wide, ..."
Would that be American or Canadian ?
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Why would we have an economic corridor enter canada in one of its poorest jurisdictions, that being ontario, near thunder bay. To know just how screwy these people are just ask them that.
an oil corridor from grand prairie to texas makes sense but why do we need a quarter mile wide road to thunder bay again? Are Mexican businessmen really that keen on a canoe trip in Quetico?
Some of the nuts at the "Loose Change" forum couldn't help themselves:
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smells fishy to me, looks fishy, we need to get ahold of that guy joe costello and get him on video, check out the site, anybody takers? anyone from that area? maybe this is the false flag we have been expecting, only this time, its a bridge, and innocent people are expendible
After all the reports and investigations are in, I think it will come down to human error on somebody's part. They ignored a warning or didn't read a report, choose to use the cheapest material, took shortcuts, didn't really do the inspection they said they did, didn't report problems to those higher up, basically a CYA.
Humans built it, humans purchased the materials, humans inspected it etc. I don't think anyone did anything on purpose. After this tradgedy, are all the other major bridges in the US being given a thourough inspection.
Of course Rosie O will say that during the past 5 yrs, Bush has been out there secretly loosening bolts etc, to cause the collapse.
This bridge was built 40 years ago, to the specs of that time. I am sure increased traffic etc was factored in, but could they have imagined the increase in traffic, the weight of those cars etc, the volume passing over on a daily basis. I don't think so.
Had the bridge been closed for several days, for repairs, what would the outrage have been.
I am waiting for algore to blame it on global warming/cooling.
And I'm waiting for, when it turns out that the govt failsafes weren't, the critics to focus the "general climate of failure brought on by our political opponents' attitudes."
As in Waterton.
MaryT; Exactly!
By the way, where the Hell's Dara when we really need him...;)
"Bush has been out there secretly loosening bolts etc, to cause the collapse."
I knew it!!!!!
Overpasses collapsing in Quebec, bridges in the States.
Coincidence? I think not!
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I want all recent purchases made on the East Coast (or Texas) checked for who purchased them...:)
There are, of course, already expressways from the Canadian to the Mexican borders: I-5 from Vancouver to Tijuana and I-15 from Lethbridge to Tijuana. From Winnipeg I-29 only takes you as far as Kansas City, but there you pick up a direct route to Laredo.
By the way, "quietly and systematically" would seem to be about the right way to build roads.
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