Expand North! So much room up there.
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But Canada is "too big" for rail. Except of course all those railways 100 years ago that pretty much made this nation possible, or how nearly every city had trams in most neighborhoods.
except for the places in the north where people CURRENTLY LIVE that are only reachable by train and airplane (not even sure about the last one, might be helicopter if the terrain is shitty enough)
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It's not just that. Trains don't run as well or brake as efficiently in cold weather, they have slippery metal rails for a reason. That's why we switched to cars and trucks too readily, and as sad as that is, I think we might need electric cars more than Americans ever needed any cars.
(That said, electric cars should be thanks to electrified smartroads, not stuffing the car itself full of computer hardware.)
trains are the most reliable mode of transport in winter conditions, the fact that they're so monstrously heavy and have tiny points of contact with the rails means they will simply squeeze out snow and crush ice, no plowing needed.
go ahead and try to drive a car through 20cm of slushy snow, it ain't happening.
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Also this map is kinda misleading. Edmonton and the entire 4 maritime provinces are not here, and the main reason so much of the population is close to the border is that something like 1/3 of the population is clustered around the great lakes/st Laurence, because people came here by boat.
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Ayyyy one of the 15% that doesn't live near the border checking in
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Due to the Straits of Mackinac, the CBP considers it to be so.
I don’t get it. The border is north of the UP.
Why do the straights count?
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It's because the rest is all degens from upcountry.
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Winnipeg has almost a million people!!
Peggers represent
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85% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the American border. And yous claim you don't want to be part of them.
*(runs and hides)*
Who are you running and hiding from?
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I would not throw pedo-shaped stones in a Canadian shaped house. For every Jeffery Epstein there's a Peter Nygard.
In Canada pedo businessmen go to prison. In the US pedo businessmen go to the White House. We are not the same.
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And ice fishing in some spot which you've sledded to.
And freezing.
You can also have a foot race with a Polar Bear. It's fun and if you win, you get to live for another day.
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They certainly are. They have some of the steepest adhesion railways in the world on those mountains.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes, and tunnels too. The issue's not just the temperature but the altitude, at least on the west coast, and lack of adhesion rail or deep bore passenger train tunnels on Canadian mountain routes. On the flat lands eastwards it's mostly that passenger engines are built differently than freight locomotives that makes the difference.
The problem can be fixed, but is it worth it? Maybe. Sadly, no politicians here seem too interested in building rail services in BC, unless it's to feed the KelVicVanSeaTac metro-economic machine.
I will say I was trying to make something resembling small talk, so I admit I'm wrong if you know otherwise. Just as far as I've seen, that's what seems to be the truth.
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Yeah, and that whole TransCanada highway being a massive choke point
Wait, are you implying it can't be a choke point as an East-West route? Or implying it is a choke point for Edmonton? Or am I missing the point?
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trains are the most reliable mode of transport in winter conditions, the fact that they're so monstrously heavy and have tiny points of contact with the rails means they will simply squeeze out snow and crush ice, no plowing needed.
go ahead and try to drive a car through 20cm of slushy snow, it ain't happening.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You're right, except in British Columbia where all the most expensive highways were built. Not better, but affordable because Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna dgaf about the rest of the province and outnumber everywhere else. If we didn't have all these tourist-focused roads, they'd have still torn up the rails and left us to drown.
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It's because the rest is all degens from upcountry.
Fuckin' hate degens.
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Wait, are you implying it can't be a choke point as an East-West route? Or implying it is a choke point for Edmonton? Or am I missing the point?
I was just saying that during a hypothetical invasion by Trump it would be a choke point
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Who are you running and hiding from?
The Canada goose.
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Huh so that's what the 401 looks like
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Peggers represent
Jesus Christ!!!
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It’s not my fault my parents had me in the lower mainland, what am I gonna do, move north?
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Ooh, wheat! Great. What about fruits? They're important for a balanced diet.
It turns out that Canada imports 50% of its vegetables and 75% of its fruit.
But do go on, tell me how Canada's climate isn't limiting in what it can produce domestically.
how much I hate most Canadians and their whiny, weak, entitled, arrogant, half clever bullshit.
oh look it's you.
