NAFTA superhighway... fact or fiction?

Corsair 115

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The lastest issue of Maclean's magazine had a nice article on the purpoted "NAFTA superhighway" that has gotten numerous folks in the U.S. all upset.

It turns out this supposed highway is much more fiction than fact. It's mostly a myth mixed in with some misconceptions, misunderstandings, and political theatre. You can read the article online at the link below.

In Search of the NAFTA Highway to Hell.

For anyone who's heard and believed the story of this supposed NAFTA superhighway, the article should make for some illuminating and interesting reading.
 
For some reason, I can't get past page two. ??? Must be the NWO.

The NAFTA superhighway is just one of those issues lots of folks simply cannot get their head around. The result is conspiracy fodder. I guess it plays well in some circles, but it's the sort of thing that leaves me wondering what the big deal is.
 
I first got this "news" in an email a few years ago. So I knew right away that it was fiction.

Any "news" you first hear via email is always fiction.
 
I'm looking forward to the NAFTA Superhighway! I own property in south Texas that is sitting right on one of the proposed routes (US-59 and Texas-16, right outside Freer, Texas) and could use the income when I sell it to Wal-Mart.

I guess that makes me a capitalist NWO shill?
 
I find it refreshing. It's a part of that North American Union conspiracy thing. Been awhile since there was a one world government, new world order type of conspiracy to laugh at. At least the goals of this one are a bit more reasonable. Controlling the Mexicans and Canadians, I mean seriously, how hard could that be?

Oh, might as well get this in too: I, for one, welcome our new CanAmerExican overlords and would like to point out that I played hockey, baseball and soccer growing up. Also, I make a mean bacon-apple margarita.
 
In my public library there are 3 HUGE spiral notebooks, entitled the "Trans-Texas Corridor"- an 8 lane super-highway intended to start at Texas' southern most border and end up were I-35 goes into Oklahoma. It also includes a nice big middle section for an ungraded rail system.

Governor Perry has been lambasted for his unfettered support for the idea.

The highway is planned to be over a quarter mile wide, and is intended to be the start of a much bigger, faster, more efficient inter-continent highway system.

Do you guys really believe this is total fiction, or just a project that hasn't started breaking ground yet?
 
I listened to Lou Dobbs blathering about this last month.

I think it's a good thing for Canadians. Since Mexico is downhill from Canada, they could coast down this super-NAFTA highway ....

Charlie (unclear of globular physics) Monoxide
 
Corsair 115 said:
that has gotten numerous folks in the U.S. all upset.
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Please define numerous. I suspect there are more truthers out there than those that fear a superhighway, and we know the truthers are a lunatic fringe.
 
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King of the Americas said:
Do you guys really believe this is total fiction, or just a project that hasn't started breaking ground yet?
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It's not fiction. It's been in the planning stages for better part of a decade now. There are signs propped up all up and down US-59 and I-35 in Texas proclaiming "Proposed I-69/NAFTA Highway"
 
Charlie Monoxide said:
I listened to Lou Dobbs blathering about this last month.
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I quit listening to him back when he went on a rant about how the then NEW European Union was going to destroy the US dollar...

Whoah... wait... You mean he was actually on to something?!

I think it's a good thing for Canadians. Since Mexico is downhill from Canada, they could coast down this super-NAFTA highway ....
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Cause that's how Canadians roll...

Charlie (unclear of globular physics) Monoxide
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Emphasis on the "glob"...
 
DaChew said:
Oh, might as well get this in too: I, for one, welcome our new CanAmerExican overlords and would like to point out that I played hockey, baseball and soccer growing up. Also, I make a mean bacon-apple margarita.
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Nominated... I'm still gigglin'...
 
TheDoLittle said:
I quit listening to him back when he went on a rant about how the then NEW European Union was going to destroy the US dollar...
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I remember fondly when he included Canada on a list of nations he termed "cheap foreign labour markets." I don't think he meant it as a direct link but the implication was clear enough.

I also recall an interview on border security where a guest stated the old myth of how all the 9/11 hijackers crossed into the U.S. from Canada. As (supposedly) a journalist I would have expected Mr. Dobbs to have known that claim is utter nonsense and immediately correct the guest, but instead he let it pass without comment.
 
Personally, I'd rather see the U.S. vastly upgrade it rail system with high speed trains, than building more highways.

Our rail system has remain basically unchanged since we left steam engines. Some of the tracks laid a century ago are still being used.

What we need are new straighter lines, with faster engines pulling passanger cars as well as cargo, with more stops and more destinations.

Rail travel is all but impossible to use these days, if you want to travel anywhere. Today to get where you are going, you have to drive or fly- neither of which is efficient.
 
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