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oscar:
--- Quote from: Stephane Dumas on May 21, 2019, 02:48:52 PM ---Any recent news about the Mid-Region Access who was planned to link Ketchikan, Wrangell and Petersburg with BC-37/Cassiar highway? http://dot.alaska.gov/sereg/projects/mid_region/index.shtml
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The state's current fiscal crisis probably means this project is even deader in the water than it already was.
Duke87:
--- Quote from: oscar on May 21, 2019, 03:03:56 PM ---The state's current fiscal crisis probably means this project is even deader in the water than it already was.
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"Than it already was"
So... is the issue that the communities in question don't necessarily want it (a la Cordova)? Or that it'd be too expensive to be worthwhile even if the state had the money?
oscar:
--- Quote from: Duke87 on June 04, 2019, 12:42:07 AM ---
--- Quote from: oscar on May 21, 2019, 03:03:56 PM ---The state's current fiscal crisis probably means this project is even deader in the water than it already was.
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"Than it already was"
So... is the issue that the communities in question don't necessarily want it (a la Cordova)? Or that it'd be too expensive to be worthwhile even if the state had the money?
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More like British Columbia has been uninterested in and/or hostile to its part of the project.
Duke87:
--- Quote from: oscar on June 04, 2019, 01:51:25 AM ---More like British Columbia has been uninterested in and/or hostile to its part of the project.
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Well it'd cost them money while providing little to no benefit to them, so... that's understandable.
Wonder how many miles you could shorten the ferry ride to Juneau by for the same price tag. That'd cut BC out of the picture, thus resolving that problem.
oscar:
--- Quote from: Duke87 on June 04, 2019, 04:52:16 PM ---Wonder how many miles you could shorten the ferry ride to Juneau by for the same price tag. That'd cut BC out of the picture, thus resolving that problem.
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The Federal courts have been hostile to that idea (unjustifiably, IMO), which is was a major factor in the decision to pull the plug. No telling how they'd react to a new highway to BC, especially if it logically followed a river.
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