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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: Fast driving - US vs Canadian roads
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Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 18:39:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 18:39:18 1984
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utcsstat!wagner (Michael Wagner) writes in part:
	Our (Canada's) highway system is significantly better than the
	American highways that I have had the (dis)pleasure of driving on, and
	I have driven a fair number of American highways ... A drive on our
	400 series highways will demonstrate the difference ... They are
	significantly smoother, both in the micro and macro scale, and this
	saves considerable fuel.

I disagree.  I have traveled on the Interstate system in a large number of
states, and I would rank Ontario's 400 series highways, on the whole, just
middling, or a shade over.  They are, however, distinctly better than the
more rundown US freeways; this is in part because they were built later.

Incidentally, he should speak of Ontario, not Canada.  The highways here are
entirely a provincial responsibility and there is considerable variation
from province to province....just as in the US most highways are entirely a
state responsibility.

Mark Brader, also of Toronto