Friday, September 23, 2005
Baby steps to a bigger and better road!!!!
Great news! http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2005/tw/0923n04.htm
The provincial roads that have been added to the national highway system are as follows:
* Pitts Memorial Drive, Route 2, from the Trans Canada Highway to the Port of St. John's;
* A portion of Portugal Cove Road from the Outer Ring Road to St. John’s International Airport;
* Route 340 from the Trans Canada Highway to the marine terminal in Lewisporte;
* Route 350 from the Trans Canada Highway to the Port of Botwood;
* Lewin Parkway in Corner Brook from the Trans Canada Highway to the Port of Corner Brook;
* Route 430 from the Trans Canada Highway at Deer Lake to the St. Barbe ferry terminal;
* The Trans Labrador Highway from the Labrador west boundary to the southern Labrador boundary.
This is the removal of a major stumbling block to the realization of a fixed link with our bretheren. It just needs to be followed up and acted upon now. Words are cheap pavement saves money and lives. Lets make sure the new TLH gets a top coat quickly before water leaches down through the subgrade and deteriorates the back bone of the road the subgrade.
http://www.cshrp.org/english/index.html
http://www.comt.ca/reports/sumrep.pdf
I should point out that the misplacement of the north pole on this map makes NL look much further North than it really is. The North pole should be placed at the middle top and not 3/8 from the left top?
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This is the removal of a major stumbling block
What "stumbling block"? The province could have finished the Trans-Labrador Highway years ago, if they had spent just 5% of the money each year, that they suck out of Labrador each year.
National highway status helps the TLH, but the lack of NHS designation was hardly a "stumbling block". The province CHOSE not to fund the Trans-Labrador Highway. They have to live with that choice. Unfortunately, the people of Labrador, who generate a disproportionately large share of provincial revenues, also have to live with that choice.
Words are cheap
Yeah, they are cheap. The cheap provincial government has paved the TLH with words many times over now, calling it a "priority", even as they spend close to 100% of the provincial roads budget in Newfoundland, and demand the federal government pay 90% of the TLH.
What "stumbling block"? The province could have finished the Trans-Labrador Highway years ago, if they had spent just 5% of the money each year, that they suck out of Labrador each year.
National highway status helps the TLH, but the lack of NHS designation was hardly a "stumbling block". The province CHOSE not to fund the Trans-Labrador Highway. They have to live with that choice. Unfortunately, the people of Labrador, who generate a disproportionately large share of provincial revenues, also have to live with that choice.
Words are cheap
Yeah, they are cheap. The cheap provincial government has paved the TLH with words many times over now, calling it a "priority", even as they spend close to 100% of the provincial roads budget in Newfoundland, and demand the federal government pay 90% of the TLH.
I should point out that the misplacement of the north pole on this map makes NL look much further North than it really is.
Again, you're confusing "north" with "up". The two are not the same thing on a conical projection.
Parallels of latitude are curved on conical projections. Newfoundland is not shown as "north" it's shown as "up". So, too, is Vancouver.
The North pole should be placed at the middle top and not 3/8 from the left top?
The North Pole isn't shown on this map at all.
Again, you're confusing "north" with "up". The two are not the same thing on a conical projection.
Parallels of latitude are curved on conical projections. Newfoundland is not shown as "north" it's shown as "up". So, too, is Vancouver.
The North pole should be placed at the middle top and not 3/8 from the left top?
The North Pole isn't shown on this map at all.
Money is the stumbling block in case you weren't aware of NL's debt.
Please give me some links to where your getting your numbers 90% federal funds used to build the TLH etc
Also I would appreciate some links to the roads to rails program if you have any.
Your right the North pole isn't shown on this map you need to extrapolate from the longitude lines shown at the top. Oh and bottom also :)
Please give me some links to where your getting your numbers 90% federal funds used to build the TLH etc
Also I would appreciate some links to the roads to rails program if you have any.
Your right the North pole isn't shown on this map you need to extrapolate from the longitude lines shown at the top. Oh and bottom also :)
Money is the stumbling block in case you weren't aware of NL's debt.
It's nice that Newfoundlanders racked up the provincial credit card, but they didn't do that by lavishing money on Labrador, that's for sure.
If just a small fraction of the provincial highways budget, over the years, had been spent on the TLH, it would have been finished years ago. But the provincial government refused to start, because it was afraid what might happen when it finished: Labrador would no longer be economically dependent on Newfoundland. So virtually 100% of the highways budget every year was spent on Newfoundland, while Newfoundland politicians promised to build a Labrador highway... once Ottawa agreed to pay for it.
Sad. Labrador is part of a province, isn't it?
Please give me some links to where your getting your numbers 90% federal funds used to build the TLH etc
HERE YOU GO.
Also I would appreciate some links to the roads to rails program if you have any.
I don't know of any off hand, it pre-dates the internet's wide use by almost a decade.
I can tell you, off hand, though, that of the over $800-million in that program, only $8-million went to Labrador.
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It's nice that Newfoundlanders racked up the provincial credit card, but they didn't do that by lavishing money on Labrador, that's for sure.
If just a small fraction of the provincial highways budget, over the years, had been spent on the TLH, it would have been finished years ago. But the provincial government refused to start, because it was afraid what might happen when it finished: Labrador would no longer be economically dependent on Newfoundland. So virtually 100% of the highways budget every year was spent on Newfoundland, while Newfoundland politicians promised to build a Labrador highway... once Ottawa agreed to pay for it.
Sad. Labrador is part of a province, isn't it?
Please give me some links to where your getting your numbers 90% federal funds used to build the TLH etc
HERE YOU GO.
Also I would appreciate some links to the roads to rails program if you have any.
I don't know of any off hand, it pre-dates the internet's wide use by almost a decade.
I can tell you, off hand, though, that of the over $800-million in that program, only $8-million went to Labrador.
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