Backbone Highway.

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In a space opera RPG campaign I once devised (but was never played) one of the 'futuristic' ideas was a 19-lane futuristic highway running along the backbone of the americas. Now it looks like plans are afoot to start on the first stage of such a construction.

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[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.

Mr. Corsi is the author of several books, including "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" (along with John O'Neill), "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil" (along with Craig R. Smith), and "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians." He is a frequent guest on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show. He will soon co-author a new book with Jim Gilchrist on the Minuteman Project.

Wait a minute, doesn't he realize that unions are Communist?

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

Xenophobia > communist-phobia, evidently. Why, you'd be putting zillions of hard-working unionized Americans out of work!

I just don't understand why they want to drive a gigantic highway up to the Minnesota-Canada border. Wouldn't it make, like, a million times more sense to go via Detroit/Windsor?

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Minnesota probably wants the business more.

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If you look at the map, the road would go to Detroit/Windsor, with just a spur to Deluth in Minnesota.

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Oh, and there's also the fact that its a LOT cheaper of buying a swath of land that wide in Minnesota than near Detroit.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Doesn't rightly make sense to me either. About 100 miles northeast of the border crossing, there's only one road, a 2-lane highway that closes 3 or 4 days out of the year for accidents. There are no other routes, not even back roads.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

There's talk of actually closing the Darien Gap, which would make it possible to drive all the way to South America, as well.

I had a friend that drove down to Honduras. He said that when he was passing through the states, they thought he was crazy for driving through Central America. When he was passing through Central America, they thought he was crazy for driving through the states. He was to pick up his sister who had hitchhiked to Columbia, proving she was craziest of them all.