June 2, 2025 • 28 mins
Could dedicated transportation routes transform our highways and revolutionize industries? Let's unravel the history behind our congested highway systems, originally built for the seamless movement of goods but now throttled by personal vehicles. Drawing inspiration from the song "Convoy," we discuss alternatives that could cut through the chaos—imagine lanes exclusively for transport trucks, vastly improving efficiency in traffic-heavy cities like Toronto. We reflect on the legacy of the United States Interstate System, the Trans-Canada Highway, and the potential benefits of separating the paths of goods and personal vehicles.
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Cause we got a little old convoy rocking
through the night.
Yeah, we got a little old convoy, ain't she
beautiful sight, convoy yeah, that's
actually from a movie Not just Homer
Simpson singing it when he actually got
Bart that microphone for his birthday,
though it was very hilarious and we all
loved it.
That's actually from a movie back in the
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day called Convoy.
Seen it A little different.
It is a car cult movie.
It's one of those ones I got to add to the
list of.
I have seen it, but that song has more
meaning to our podcast today.
Today we're taking a look at transportation
infrastructure, and how would it be if we
improved the way we move products and
transports?
I'm not talking about transporting goods on
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trains or boats or planes.
I'm talking about creating dedicated
transportation routes.
We kind of already have them, but I'm
talking about ones that are specifically
set up only for the transportations of
goods, not people, just goods.
So today AutoLooks is going to be taking a
look at dedicated transportation routes.
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So, like I said in the beginning, dedicated
transport routes.
Why would we even consider these?
Like?
Essentially, I thought that's why highways
were made, especially the interstate to the
United States.
Well, that was one main purpose of them.
They created the highways in the United
States, the interstate system, essentially
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for the ease and access of transportable
goods.
Realizing that more goods were getting
moved across their country on transports
and not trains, they decided to set a whole
brand new highway system.
Now, as I've already talked about in my
home country, canada, oh yeah, we created a
highway system.
It just took until the mid-60s before it
was finally finished and by the time it was
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finally finished it was still out of date.
So we still don't give transportation
network the much-do that it needs.
A lot of other places in the world have
they created either the two plus one lane,
the dedicated transportation route, which
we call the limited access highways, or
freeways or expressways.
If you ever noticed, all standard freeways
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and major highways in cities all go right
through the main industrial parks why?
Well, if you ever played any of those old
transport games the late 90s, early 2000s,
like 18 wheeler pro trucker, was any of
those old transport games of the late 90s,
early 2000s, like 18-wheeler pro trucker,
was one of those ones.
That was an arcade game.
Have you ever noticed you always pick stuff
up in one industrial park and drop it off
in another industrial park.
Well, when you're moving goods across great
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distances, that's where it moved.
It's only from those suburban industrial
parks does product move into the city that
we need to utilize city streets Between
cities.
We essentially needed a dedicated transport
route.
We had that.
We gave the world the interstate system in
the United States.
We have the M1 in Great Britain, we have
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the TransCanada in Canada, we got major
automotive networks to connect all of our
major cities and it's the free flow on
these limited access highways that made
transportation of goods a lot quicker and a
lot better.
Because when they were traveling along
those old two-lane highways that went
through towns, they had to slow down, they
weren't as straight, they got closed down,
quite often due to bad weather or accidents.
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But as the world grew from the 1950s all
the way up until the 90s, and our
population exploded past what we had ever
seen on this planet before Well, at least
what we know of are highways.
That dedicated transportation route to move
our goods from city to city got clogged and
filled with personal transportation units.
Now you may think I'm kind of crazy,
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because I'm one of those people that always
talks about expanding our limited access
highway system, especially in home country.
But there's a reasoning behind that.
I'm not thinking about the safety of
everyone else around me.
Sure, I would love to drive a limited
access highway all the way from my city
down to the next major center, which is
over four hours away, be able to do between
100 and 120 kilometers an hour.
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Americanize this 65 to 75 miles an hour.
Get in between the two cities.
Yeah, it'd be safer.
I could just basically set my cruise
control and go straight down.
But even if that was in play, I would still
have problems with traffic.
The second I get within one hour of that
major center.
Why?
Because there's so many personal
transportation routes utilizing that
dedicated transport route.
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So in a sense, these dedicated transport
routes already existed.
We just clogged it up with our personal
mobility units.
That automobile that's sitting in your
driveway is your own personal mobility unit
and essentially by you using the freeway to
get to work because it's faster and quicker,
you're clogging up transportation of goods
from city to city and as those goods take
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longer and longer to get from place to
place, it costs you more.
Just in the city of Toronto, they can lose
$100 million per month just because of
transports getting stuck on their highways.
If those highways moved at a steady rate of
at least 80 kilometers an hour, or 100,
like that's posted, those goods would move
quicker, thus decreasing our overhead.
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But why am I getting into these dedicated
transport routes?
Back in the 1990s, the east coast of Canada
was going through a major expansion.
Now in Canada we have what we call
equalization payments.
They're made in Canada to kind of make it
so that the half-provinces can help keep
the half-not-provinces having the same
systems in play.
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So mostly British Columbia, alberta,
saskatchewan and even Ontario pay these
equalization payments out to everyone else.
The East Coast has been getting them for
years due to the fact that it had a
dwindling population, its industries were
going under and it needed help.
Well, what they did in the 90s is they
realized they needed to expand their
transportation network.
You can't set up manufacturing sites on
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basic two-lane highway systems that barely
have any access roads around them.
You need to create a dedicated
transportation network, essentially an
interstate system.
So the provinces of New Brunswick, nova
Scotia and even Newfoundland set out to
create these new dedicated highway systems.
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If you actually take a look at a map from
above, there are actual dedicated transport
routes now in both Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick.
Newfoundland has them in some areas, but
not fully limited access or a dedicated
highway system.
Nova Scotia kind of has it around the
bottom end of the peninsula.
They have their original highways and
they've created a new two dedicated,
limited access thruway for the
transportation of goods and services.
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It's also to transport people from city to
city more quickly, but because it's close
to the original highway that existed.
Anybody traveling out there doesn't need to
use this highway.
If they want to see the countryside as it
is, they could travel along the standard
highway system, the pre-existing main
highway, and slowly coast through all these
towns, like you do when you're on vacation.
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But when I take vacation in Northern
Ontario, my main area I live in, I can only
take the transportation routes.
The Trans-Canada Highway is the only way to
go.
There are no other alternatives.
So for me, when something happens on that,
that's it.
It's game over.
Transportation comes to a standstill.
But why is it still set up that way?
Why do we not have a secondary highway
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dedicated to just the movement of goods?
Especially at a time that Canada is looking
to reduce it's dependence on the United
States thanks to all its tariffs?
We want to trade amongst all the provinces.
To do this we need a dedicated
transportation network.
Our highway systems won't cut it and a lot
of provinces and a lot of places don't have
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these dedicated transportation networks.
If something happens on one highway, that's
it.
Like I said, it's game over.
But by creating a secondary dedicated
transport route from all these main hubs
and only allowing transportation
infrastructure to ride on those roadways,
we can decrease our costs.
I've had this happen to me tons of times
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Order stuff for a job and it's supposed to
be in tomorrow, and all of a sudden there's
a snowstorm overnight and the transport
gets stuck in the highway for six hours.
Usually you don't find out about this until
you get into work the next morning, when
there's already people on site waiting for
this product to arrive.
Then you have to call them, tell them to
get off site because the truck's not going
to be there until the next day because it's
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backlogged on the highway.
Well, what did that just do?
One?
The transportation company is at a total
loss because they lose an entire shift with
that truck sitting there that they have to
pay for.
I now have to pay for my workers sitting
there at a job site.
Even if they'd only been there for 30
minutes, I still have to pay them the base
minimum three hours in the province of
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Ontario.
So I got to pay them three hours for work
that they didn't even do.
So I'm out money, the transportation
company's out money, and the transportation
company has to find a way to make that
money back and, knowing this, they usually
have higher rates and we don't like paying
these higher rates.
So we go out and we shop around for new
transportation companies, but even these
new ones that come in start to realize the
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expense of moving these goods within these
select areas.
Because of situations like that, they have
to plan for at least six or seven every
winter, which means you have to take into
account the loss of money.
By having a dedicated transport route
without personal mobility units on it, you
could reduce the accident rate for
transportation units.
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Now that'd be an amazingly great thing.
How many truckers out there listening to
this podcast right now would love it if
they had their own dedicated highway system
where they didn't have to deal with these
little idiot drivers driving their own
personal mobility units?
How amazing is it?
We are on a nice quiet back highway, just
to say.
You're traveling along Highway 17 between
Wawa and Marathon.
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It's all bush, it's quiet, it's inland, it
may be the middle of winter, but even if it
gets snowy it's not that bad of a highway,
and you're traveling along because there's
not a lot of traffic, it's quiet and it's
great.
You can these conditions and yet they've
never been trained to drive that vehicle in
those conditions and they come flying
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around you doing 120, passing you on the
outside on a blind corner where there's no
passing lane, all of a sudden your buddy in
transport heading south on the other side
comes around the corner and nails that
truck head on.
How many truckers have been in those
situations?
You always get those morons.
Hell, it's going to be middle of the summer,
and just because your transport is
regulated to not going faster than 10
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kilometers an hour more than the speed
limit, so on a 90 kilometer highway you can
only do 100 kilometers an hour and you get
those morons behind you that want to do
like 120, 130 and they fly around you.
They come close to sideswiping you.
They get in front of you.
Then they get pissed off and they hit their
brakes.
Try and brake check you.
You got to slow down.
It's just aggravating.
By developing our own transportation
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network that's dedicated just to the
movement of goods, we can reduce that.
The people can have their own highway,
which their gas tax and everything pays for,
and the transportation network can have its
own highway that the taxes from the
warehouse and the movement of goods is
paying for.
Now, when you're going over really long
distances, you always got to ask yourself
why don't you just put it on a train.
Everett, not everywhere has select areas,
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you know, after you leave the city of
Toronto the next time you hit an intermodal
facility.
So a facility that allows you to warehouse
and take products on and off of trains to
be able to be put into box trucks doesn't
exist until the city of Winnipeg.
So the city of North Bay, sudbury, sault
Ste Marie, timmins and Thunder Bay don't
have one, where from Toronto to Winnipeg is
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nearly 2,000 kilometers and there's no
intermodal facility.
So when we manufacture something, let's say
Sault Ste Marie, it's steel on the flat
deck of a truck and it's going to a
manufacturing site, let's say Allstream
building train cars in Thunder Bay.
Well, you think, oh, why don't you just put
it on a train?
Well, they do have rail service there.
But does the manufacturer in Thunder Bay
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have the ability to take that steel coil
off in the city?
No, they don't.
There's no intermodal facility.
So to bypass this whole dedicated transport
route, at least in my little select area of
the world, having more intermodal
facilities would help with this
substantially, because then you take the
transports off the roadway and then a
person like myself complaining that we need
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the limited access highway.
The government can literally say well,
there's no more trucks on the road.
It's just, you guys Figure it out.
There's not enough traffic to warrant
expense.
But because they don't, that truck has to
travel from Sault Ste Marie to Thunder Bay
over six and a half hours on a truck on a
highway that gets shut down at least once a
month during the wintertime.
Even in the summer they have landslides due
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to heavy rains, which shut the highway down
too because it rides along the coastline of
Lake Superior.
Now, building a dedicated transportation
route.
So, instead of making a limited access
highway for all of us to use, by having a
dedicated transportation route that
stretches from Sault Ste Marie all the way
at least up until Thunder Bay, backing
behind all the main hills, so it's away
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from the coastline, we could decrease the
amount of shutdowns we have for these
transportation units.
Now, let's say you're going from a big city
like Toronto all the way to Montreal.
Well, to bypass that situation, it's
similar to you know, they both have
intermodal facilities.
But sometimes you want to do LTL services,
you need to get that product overnight.
Well, there's the 401, right that runs
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between both of them.
That's our main transportation corridor
right now.
Yeah, but Montreal and Toronto are some of
the most congested cities in Canada.
When you hit them at specific times, you
can lose hours of time stuck in traffic,
which means more money coming out of your
pocket with your truck sitting there idling
because they can't travel at the high rate
of speed.
Now, building a brand new highway system
let's say the 407 that they originally
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started we allow only transports on the 407.
So you can now go from Hamilton all the way
out to the 115 up to Peterborough.
But let's extend that all the way out up to
Ottawa and over to Montreal, and then have
one from Montreal going all the way up to
Quebec City.
You can now go from Toronto all the way to
Quebec City on a dedicated transportation
route called the 407.
Let's just call it that.
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Only transports are allowed on it.
It's limited access.
It goes from every major industrialized
area to each other.
Well, price reduction will happen, fuel
consumption will decrease and our ability
to move products will increase
substantially by having these dedicated
transportation routes.
Now, if you want a pure example of
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dedicated transport routes, just go to
Australia.
They have giant mines that it's literally
cheaper for them to put a road in than it
is to build a railway.
Why?
Because these mines are way out in the
middle of nowhere in the outback, and
because it's so flat and so barren, it's
easy to create a road back there To put a
railway in.
There's a lot more engineering construction
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that would go into it.
And then, once the mine closes, what do you
do with the railway?
Literally just going to be left there to
rot because there's no other purpose for it.
So instead let's make a road, because when
we're done with the road since it's dirt
now we just give it back to nature.
They have road trains, transports with six
trailers behind them going back and forth
between coal mines in australia, but the
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road that they travel on is only for them.
It's a dedicated transport route.
Because it was cheaper and easier to use
transports than it was to train all the
stuff out, they created a dedicated
transportation route to move the products
from one select location to another.
Now, when you're working with major cities,
you've got tons and tons of manufactured
facilities that you all have to take into
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account.
I get it.
It'd be so much easier if you could just
plop, tell everybody they got to move into
this one select location.
You still have to use surface roads, but by
creating a ribbon through them, you can
make it easier to move the goods once they
get off surface roads.
You have to remember the original dedicated
transportation routes across any country
was railway.
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Can you add personal mobility units to a
railway?
You could if you really wanted to, but not
really.
Those things are huge.
When you leave the province of Ontario and
you go into Manitoba, you're allowed to
have two 52-foot-long trailers tanned on a
highway and they're also allowed to have
the triple shorters.
Ontario we can't do that.
We have too many corners and we also have
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standard two-lane highways that were built
in the 1960s, so we don't have a dedicated
transportation infrastructure for the
movement of goods.
Manitoba is flat.
It's wide.
Like their, highways are not limited access,
but the two lane broken highways are long
ways away from each other.
So you can get these massive transports out
on these highways, going from one place to
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another easily.
That means you can move even more goods in
one shot.
Dedicated transport route across the
province of Ontario, specifically made for
transportation of goods only, would be able
to encompass this.
You then could supply transports that have
two or three 53-foot long trailers behind
them.
You can move three times the amount of
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goods with one select driver.
And how much money are you going to save?
Think about it.
If you could train stuff everywhere, you
could save even more money, because there's
only a handful of people operating.
That train is across the country that you
have to pay for, but you've got millions
upon millions in goods being shipped, far
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outweigh the human aspect of it.
Developing a dedicated transportation route
for transport similar to trains and their
railway lines could help alleviate all of
this.
You don't even have to make it a big
four-lane highway.
You can make it a dedicated two-lane
highway, or even do the three-lane.
That's been famous in a lot of Scandinavian
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countries and we're actually trying to put
one in Ontario right now on Highway 11.
It's called the two plus 1 Highway.
It actually exists in Canada in one aspect,
between Hull and Montreal, I believe that's
Highway 15, or is it the 50?
One of those two, and they have a one plus
two.
So it's a three lanes and every once in a
while you'll lose your secondary passing
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lane and become a single lane highway.
Now, if you created these dedicated
transport routes similar to that kind of
like railways, however, once in a while, a
railway, being a single rail going all the
way down, will eventually have breakoffs so
that other trains can go and sit there as
one longer.
One can pass them by by creating a two plus
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one highway system for the dedicated
transport routes, bridges over top and ease
and access.
All you have to do is add a few gas
stations, basically make a brand new truck
stop, and these things could support
themselves.
You now have transports with three trailers
behind them being able to stop, get food,
fill up easily on a highway.
If one truck can move a little bit quicker
than the other, one where you only have a
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truck with one 53-footer behind it and he
needs to pass the truck with three
53-footers behind him, he could just wait
until he gets to the passing lane.
You put either a center median in or you
make it a broken highway kind of like the
limited access highway systems.
You have to remember, until we can have the
ability to make flying vehicles actual
flying vehicles like you see in Star Wars
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or Futurama, or if you really want to go
that far.
The fifth element okay, until we get to a
system like that, we still need roadways
underneath of us and a dedicated highway
system for the transportation of goods
across any major country can really help
its system out.
It'll help alleviate transports on main
highway systems.
Because if you've all seen major accidents
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in the middle of wintertime or even the
middle of summertime, it's always a car
that gets hit by a transport because the
vehicle was doing something stupid in front
of a massive vehicle on the road.
And even if it was the transport's fault,
when they wipe out they're more likely to
take out more than one little vehicle.
Now we're not saying you need to develop
these dedicated transportation routes
everywhere, but utilizing them in major
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transportation corridors to alleviate
transport stuck in congestion.
Think about it If you had a dedicated
transport route, like I said, that went
from, let's say, even just Montreal to
Toronto, that would help alleviate all
those transports on the 401.
How many times have you been stuck on the
401 in Toronto, being surrounded by
transports in the middle of the day and
you're like, oh, why can't they just put
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this crap on rail, not understanding that
not everything can be shipped via rail
because there are not enough intermodal
facilities across this country.
If we had more of them, it would help out.
I just want to point that out.
If our Premier of the Province of Ontario
is listening right now, take a listen to
what I'm saying.
These transportation corridors can also be
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utilized in other areas Forestry and mining
Hell.
You can even have them in major farming
institutions.
Make it easier, those dedicated
transportation routes.
You can have dedicated farming routes to
move their equipment on one standard gravel
road that nobody else is allowed to use the
transport systems for mining.
Well, if it's too far in and it's too
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expensive to put rail in, you can utilize
your trucks to move that product.
They're talking about getting in the ring
of fire and building a brand new road up
there.
Sure, railing all that stuff out would be a
lot easier.
But to get in there to build the mines, we
can get a roadway first.
When the roadway is built we're going to
need that to truck stuff in and out
constantly.
Because unless you're going to put an
intermodal facility in Greenstone and then
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one up at every single mine up there, you
might as well just throw it on a truck and
drive it up.
Because literally by the time you get it on
at the intermodal facility, bring you, get
it on at the intermodal facility, bring it
up to the other one and get it off.
That truck could have literally driven that
entire distance and delivered it within
that amount of time.
So you can better utilize transports.
Forestry already kind of has this system in
play with logging roads.
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Logging roads are essentially dedicated
routes built through the backwoods to
access the areas where they're logging.
Now there are other people that do utilize
these roads off-road 4x4 drivers, quads and
side-by-sides, oh, and dirt bikes.
Dirt bikes love to use them too.
Now, even occasionally mountain bikers will
utilize them, but they have to be able to
remember that this is a dedicated
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transportation route set up for only the
transportation of logging trucks, not for
you.
So in a sense, they kind of already exist
in those situations.
Our biggest mainstay for this entire
podcast is about creating the dedicated
transportation routes for the safe travel
of goods across great distances.
Every city's got roads and every city's got
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freeways.
We all have systems in play to move these
goods already, but in areas that are
becoming more and more congested, the
development of dedicated transportation
routes is something that should be put into
play, because moving our goods at a higher
rate of speed than they are moving right
now when they're stuck in traffic, can save
us all time and money, which puts more
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money back in our pocket and more money
into the pockets of the companies that are
shipping them and the shipping companies,
and hell if you don't want to go that far.
You know they're more money into the
pockets of the companies that are shipping
them.
And the shipping companies?
And hell if you don't want to go that far.
You know they're creating the HOV lanes,
the high occupancy vehicle lanes.
If you want to make it simpler, make
dedicated transport lanes on highways.
It's the easiest way to do it.
You can literally have one so you can have
your HOV lane and then a dedicated
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transport lane on the far side.
The only thing you have to do is you have
to make police understand that personal
mobility units are not allowed in that lane,
unless you're literally a transport or a
one-ton diesel pickup truck that's towing
something more than a standard pickup rate.
You're not allowed to use those lanes.
It's for the transportation of goods only.
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It's just a great idea when you really
think about it.
In the end, do we really need this?
Yes, it would help decrease traffic and
congestion in some of the worst areas in
the world.
Everybody always talks about creating these
dedicated highway systems.
They all think by building these big,
limited access highway systems here, there
and everywhere, it's going to help reduce
congestion.
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But no, if you want proof of that, go to
the state of California.
My brother lived there.
He occasionally he'd rent a vehicle for a
couple of days because he'd be going out
and doing stuff and he's traveling along
and even get stuck in traffic in the city
of San Francisco at any time of the day.
He got stuck in traffic at two o'clock in
the morning on a weekday, like why am I
getting stuck in 30 minute backlog of traps?
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Because there are so many highway systems
there and so many people like to go out for
a drive constantly.
They all use the highways.
They don't use the surface roads.
So by creating more and more highways we're
not reducing congestion, we're just
creating more options for people to get
around.
So in the province of Ontario the Premier
is actually looking at building a brand new,
slightly ring road from the Highway 400 all
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the way to the 401 to try and reduce
congestion for transportation units called
the 413.
But he's going to be opening it up to
everything Now.
The Transportation Network has already
stated that the 407 should become a
dedicated transport route.
All transport should not have to pay to
utilize that.
Vehicles should be charged because they're
using a highway system that was intended
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for the movements of goods and the 407 goes
through all major industrial park areas.
That's amazingly great idea.
Charge cars, not truck, kind of like those
congestion charges.
Maybe those are things you have to start
looking at.
If you can't afford to build these
dedicated transportation routes, you have
to look at the alternatives Dedicated
transport lanes, tolling standard vehicles
to keep congestion down or essentially
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pushing trucks onto their own dedicated
surface routes.
All I know is that we really need to do
something about this, because every time I
go down to Toronto, I always get stuck
going from the 400 onto the 401.
And every time I'm stuck trying to exit on
those two lanes that merge very quickly.
On the other side there's always a ton of
transport sitting next to me.
A lot of people bitch and complain about it,
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but I don't.
I sit there and look at that and I
literally see dollar signs just being blown
out the window as that truck moves slower
and slower.
He's losing money.
I'm only losing time.
They're more important to the economy than
I am.
Just remember that the transport's moving
the goods does more for the economy than
you sitting in your car.
So, yes, let's create these dedicated
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transport routes and let's get off our
asses and try and build a viable
transportation network for the movement of
goods only where we take the personal
mobility units out of the equation.
We've been trying everything to get people
to take public transit systems for years.
Maybe the next step is to literally strip
them of their highway system.
In the end, who's going to win?
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So, like I said in the beginning, dedicated
transport routes.
Why would we even consider these?
Like?
Essentially, I thought that's why highways
were made, especially the interstate to the
United States.
Well, that was one main purpose of them.
They created the highways in the United
States, the interstate system, essentially
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for the ease and access of transportable
goods.
Realizing that more goods were getting
moved across their country on transports
and not trains, they decided to set a whole
brand new highway system.
Now, as I've already talked about in my
home country, canada, oh yeah, we created a
highway system.
It just took until the mid-60s before it
was finally finished and by the time it was
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finally finished it was still out of date.
So we still don't give transportation
network the much-do that it needs.
A lot of other places in the world have
they created either the two plus one lane,
the dedicated transportation route, which
we call the limited access highways, or
freeways or expressways.
If you ever noticed, all standard freeways
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and major highways in cities all go right
through the main industrial parks why?
Well, if you ever played any of those old
transport games the late 90s, early 2000s,
like 18 wheeler pro trucker, was any of
those old transport games of the late 90s,
early 2000s, like 18-wheeler pro trucker,
was one of those ones.
That was an arcade game.
Have you ever noticed you always pick stuff
up in one industrial park and drop it off
in another industrial park.
Well, when you're moving goods across great
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distances, that's where it moved.
It's only from those suburban industrial
parks does product move into the city that
we need to utilize city streets Between
cities.
We essentially needed a dedicated transport
route.
We had that.
We gave the world the interstate system in
the United States.
We have the M1 in Great Britain, we have
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the TransCanada in Canada, we got major
automotive networks to connect all of our
major cities and it's the free flow on
these limited access highways that made
transportation of goods a lot quicker and a
lot better.
Because when they were traveling along
those old two-lane highways that went
through towns, they had to slow down, they
weren't as straight, they got closed down,
quite often due to bad weather or accidents.
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But as the world grew from the 1950s all
the way up until the 90s, and our
population exploded past what we had ever
seen on this planet before Well, at least
what we know of are highways.
That dedicated transportation route to move
our goods from city to city got clogged and
filled with personal transportation units.
Now you may think I'm kind of crazy,
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because I'm one of those people that always
talks about expanding our limited access
highway system, especially in home country.
But there's a reasoning behind that.
I'm not thinking about the safety of
everyone else around me.
Sure, I would love to drive a limited
access highway all the way from my city
down to the next major center, which is
over four hours away, be able to do between
100 and 120 kilometers an hour.
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Americanize this 65 to 75 miles an hour.
Get in between the two cities.
Yeah, it'd be safer.
I could just basically set my cruise
control and go straight down.
But even if that was in play, I would still
have problems with traffic.
The second I get within one hour of that
major center.
Why?
Because there's so many personal
transportation routes utilizing that
dedicated transport route.
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So in a sense, these dedicated transport
routes already existed.
We just clogged it up with our personal
mobility units.
That automobile that's sitting in your
driveway is your own personal mobility unit
and essentially by you using the freeway to
get to work because it's faster and quicker,
you're clogging up transportation of goods
from city to city and as those goods take
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longer and longer to get from place to
place, it costs you more.
Just in the city of Toronto, they can lose
$100 million per month just because of
transports getting stuck on their highways.
If those highways moved at a steady rate of
at least 80 kilometers an hour, or 100,
like that's posted, those goods would move
quicker, thus decreasing our overhead.
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But why am I getting into these dedicated
transport routes?
Back in the 1990s, the east coast of Canada
was going through a major expansion.
Now in Canada we have what we call
equalization payments.
They're made in Canada to kind of make it
so that the half-provinces can help keep
the half-not-provinces having the same
systems in play.
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So mostly British Columbia, alberta,
saskatchewan and even Ontario pay these
equalization payments out to everyone else.
The East Coast has been getting them for
years due to the fact that it had a
dwindling population, its industries were
going under and it needed help.
Well, what they did in the 90s is they
realized they needed to expand their
transportation network.
You can't set up manufacturing sites on
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basic two-lane highway systems that barely
have any access roads around them.
You need to create a dedicated
transportation network, essentially an
interstate system.
So the provinces of New Brunswick, nova
Scotia and even Newfoundland set out to
create these new dedicated highway systems.
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If you actually take a look at a map from
above, there are actual dedicated transport
routes now in both Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick.
Newfoundland has them in some areas, but
not fully limited access or a dedicated
highway system.
Nova Scotia kind of has it around the
bottom end of the peninsula.
They have their original highways and
they've created a new two dedicated,
limited access thruway for the
transportation of goods and services.
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It's also to transport people from city to
city more quickly, but because it's close
to the original highway that existed.
Anybody traveling out there doesn't need to
use this highway.
If they want to see the countryside as it
is, they could travel along the standard
highway system, the pre-existing main
highway, and slowly coast through all these
towns, like you do when you're on vacation.
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But when I take vacation in Northern
Ontario, my main area I live in, I can only
take the transportation routes.
The Trans-Canada Highway is the only way to
go.
There are no other alternatives.
So for me, when something happens on that,
that's it.
It's game over.
Transportation comes to a standstill.
But why is it still set up that way?
Why do we not have a secondary highway
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dedicated to just the movement of goods?
Especially at a time that Canada is looking
to reduce it's dependence on the United
States thanks to all its tariffs?
We want to trade amongst all the provinces.
To do this we need a dedicated
transportation network.
Our highway systems won't cut it and a lot
of provinces and a lot of places don't have
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these dedicated transportation networks.
If something happens on one highway, that's
it.
Like I said, it's game over.
But by creating a secondary dedicated
transport route from all these main hubs
and only allowing transportation
infrastructure to ride on those roadways,
we can decrease our costs.
I've had this happen to me tons of times
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Order stuff for a job and it's supposed to
be in tomorrow, and all of a sudden there's
a snowstorm overnight and the transport
gets stuck in the highway for six hours.
Usually you don't find out about this until
you get into work the next morning, when
there's already people on site waiting for
this product to arrive.
Then you have to call them, tell them to
get off site because the truck's not going
to be there until the next day because it's
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backlogged on the highway.
Well, what did that just do?
One?
The transportation company is at a total
loss because they lose an entire shift with
that truck sitting there that they have to
pay for.
I now have to pay for my workers sitting
there at a job site.
Even if they'd only been there for 30
minutes, I still have to pay them the base
minimum three hours in the province of
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Ontario.
So I got to pay them three hours for work
that they didn't even do.
So I'm out money, the transportation
company's out money, and the transportation
company has to find a way to make that
money back and, knowing this, they usually
have higher rates and we don't like paying
these higher rates.
So we go out and we shop around for new
transportation companies, but even these
new ones that come in start to realize the
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expense of moving these goods within these
select areas.
Because of situations like that, they have
to plan for at least six or seven every
winter, which means you have to take into
account the loss of money.
By having a dedicated transport route
without personal mobility units on it, you
could reduce the accident rate for
transportation units.
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Now that'd be an amazingly great thing.
How many truckers out there listening to
this podcast right now would love it if
they had their own dedicated highway system
where they didn't have to deal with these
little idiot drivers driving their own
personal mobility units?
How amazing is it?
We are on a nice quiet back highway, just
to say.
You're traveling along Highway 17 between
Wawa and Marathon.
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It's all bush, it's quiet, it's inland, it
may be the middle of winter, but even if it
gets snowy it's not that bad of a highway,
and you're traveling along because there's
not a lot of traffic, it's quiet and it's
great.
You can these conditions and yet they've
never been trained to drive that vehicle in
those conditions and they come flying
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around you doing 120, passing you on the
outside on a blind corner where there's no
passing lane, all of a sudden your buddy in
transport heading south on the other side
comes around the corner and nails that
truck head on.
How many truckers have been in those
situations?
You always get those morons.
Hell, it's going to be middle of the summer,
and just because your transport is
regulated to not going faster than 10
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kilometers an hour more than the speed
limit, so on a 90 kilometer highway you can
only do 100 kilometers an hour and you get
those morons behind you that want to do
like 120, 130 and they fly around you.
They come close to sideswiping you.
They get in front of you.
Then they get pissed off and they hit their
brakes.
Try and brake check you.
You got to slow down.
It's just aggravating.
By developing our own transportation
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network that's dedicated just to the
movement of goods, we can reduce that.
The people can have their own highway,
which their gas tax and everything pays for,
and the transportation network can have its
own highway that the taxes from the
warehouse and the movement of goods is
paying for.
Now, when you're going over really long
distances, you always got to ask yourself
why don't you just put it on a train.
Everett, not everywhere has select areas,
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you know, after you leave the city of
Toronto the next time you hit an intermodal
facility.
So a facility that allows you to warehouse
and take products on and off of trains to
be able to be put into box trucks doesn't
exist until the city of Winnipeg.
So the city of North Bay, sudbury, sault
Ste Marie, timmins and Thunder Bay don't
have one, where from Toronto to Winnipeg is
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nearly 2,000 kilometers and there's no
intermodal facility.
So when we manufacture something, let's say
Sault Ste Marie, it's steel on the flat
deck of a truck and it's going to a
manufacturing site, let's say Allstream
building train cars in Thunder Bay.
Well, you think, oh, why don't you just put
it on a train?
Well, they do have rail service there.
But does the manufacturer in Thunder Bay
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have the ability to take that steel coil
off in the city?
No, they don't.
There's no intermodal facility.
So to bypass this whole dedicated transport
route, at least in my little select area of
the world, having more intermodal
facilities would help with this
substantially, because then you take the
transports off the roadway and then a
person like myself complaining that we need
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the limited access highway.
The government can literally say well,
there's no more trucks on the road.
It's just, you guys Figure it out.
There's not enough traffic to warrant
expense.
But because they don't, that truck has to
travel from Sault Ste Marie to Thunder Bay
over six and a half hours on a truck on a
highway that gets shut down at least once a
month during the wintertime.
Even in the summer they have landslides due
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to heavy rains, which shut the highway down
too because it rides along the coastline of
Lake Superior.
Now, building a dedicated transportation
route.
So, instead of making a limited access
highway for all of us to use, by having a
dedicated transportation route that
stretches from Sault Ste Marie all the way
at least up until Thunder Bay, backing
behind all the main hills, so it's away
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from the coastline, we could decrease the
amount of shutdowns we have for these
transportation units.
Now, let's say you're going from a big city
like Toronto all the way to Montreal.
Well, to bypass that situation, it's
similar to you know, they both have
intermodal facilities.
But sometimes you want to do LTL services,
you need to get that product overnight.
Well, there's the 401, right that runs
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between both of them.
That's our main transportation corridor
right now.
Yeah, but Montreal and Toronto are some of
the most congested cities in Canada.
When you hit them at specific times, you
can lose hours of time stuck in traffic,
which means more money coming out of your
pocket with your truck sitting there idling
because they can't travel at the high rate
of speed.
Now, building a brand new highway system
let's say the 407 that they originally
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started we allow only transports on the 407.
So you can now go from Hamilton all the way
out to the 115 up to Peterborough.
But let's extend that all the way out up to
Ottawa and over to Montreal, and then have
one from Montreal going all the way up to
Quebec City.
You can now go from Toronto all the way to
Quebec City on a dedicated transportation
route called the 407.
Let's just call it that.
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Only transports are allowed on it.
It's limited access.
It goes from every major industrialized
area to each other.
Well, price reduction will happen, fuel
consumption will decrease and our ability
to move products will increase
substantially by having these dedicated
transportation routes.
Now, if you want a pure example of
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dedicated transport routes, just go to
Australia.
They have giant mines that it's literally
cheaper for them to put a road in than it
is to build a railway.
Why?
Because these mines are way out in the
middle of nowhere in the outback, and
because it's so flat and so barren, it's
easy to create a road back there To put a
railway in.
There's a lot more engineering construction
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that would go into it.
And then, once the mine closes, what do you
do with the railway?
Literally just going to be left there to
rot because there's no other purpose for it.
So instead let's make a road, because when
we're done with the road since it's dirt
now we just give it back to nature.
They have road trains, transports with six
trailers behind them going back and forth
between coal mines in australia, but the
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road that they travel on is only for them.
It's a dedicated transport route.
Because it was cheaper and easier to use
transports than it was to train all the
stuff out, they created a dedicated
transportation route to move the products
from one select location to another.
Now, when you're working with major cities,
you've got tons and tons of manufactured
facilities that you all have to take into
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account.
I get it.
It'd be so much easier if you could just
plop, tell everybody they got to move into
this one select location.
You still have to use surface roads, but by
creating a ribbon through them, you can
make it easier to move the goods once they
get off surface roads.
You have to remember the original dedicated
transportation routes across any country
was railway.
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Can you add personal mobility units to a
railway?
You could if you really wanted to, but not
really.
Those things are huge.
When you leave the province of Ontario and
you go into Manitoba, you're allowed to
have two 52-foot-long trailers tanned on a
highway and they're also allowed to have
the triple shorters.
Ontario we can't do that.
We have too many corners and we also have
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standard two-lane highways that were built
in the 1960s, so we don't have a dedicated
transportation infrastructure for the
movement of goods.
Manitoba is flat.
It's wide.
Like their, highways are not limited access,
but the two lane broken highways are long
ways away from each other.
So you can get these massive transports out
on these highways, going from one place to
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another easily.
That means you can move even more goods in
one shot.
Dedicated transport route across the
province of Ontario, specifically made for
transportation of goods only, would be able
to encompass this.
You then could supply transports that have
two or three 53-foot long trailers behind
them.
You can move three times the amount of
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goods with one select driver.
And how much money are you going to save?
Think about it.
If you could train stuff everywhere, you
could save even more money, because there's
only a handful of people operating.
That train is across the country that you
have to pay for, but you've got millions
upon millions in goods being shipped, far
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outweigh the human aspect of it.
Developing a dedicated transportation route
for transport similar to trains and their
railway lines could help alleviate all of
this.
You don't even have to make it a big
four-lane highway.
You can make it a dedicated two-lane
highway, or even do the three-lane.
That's been famous in a lot of Scandinavian
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countries and we're actually trying to put
one in Ontario right now on Highway 11.
It's called the two plus 1 Highway.
It actually exists in Canada in one aspect,
between Hull and Montreal, I believe that's
Highway 15, or is it the 50?
One of those two, and they have a one plus
two.
So it's a three lanes and every once in a
while you'll lose your secondary passing
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lane and become a single lane highway.
Now, if you created these dedicated
transport routes similar to that kind of
like railways, however, once in a while, a
railway, being a single rail going all the
way down, will eventually have breakoffs so
that other trains can go and sit there as
one longer.
One can pass them by by creating a two plus
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one highway system for the dedicated
transport routes, bridges over top and ease
and access.
All you have to do is add a few gas
stations, basically make a brand new truck
stop, and these things could support
themselves.
You now have transports with three trailers
behind them being able to stop, get food,
fill up easily on a highway.
If one truck can move a little bit quicker
than the other, one where you only have a
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truck with one 53-footer behind it and he
needs to pass the truck with three
53-footers behind him, he could just wait
until he gets to the passing lane.
You put either a center median in or you
make it a broken highway kind of like the
limited access highway systems.
You have to remember, until we can have the
ability to make flying vehicles actual
flying vehicles like you see in Star Wars
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or Futurama, or if you really want to go
that far.
The fifth element okay, until we get to a
system like that, we still need roadways
underneath of us and a dedicated highway
system for the transportation of goods
across any major country can really help
its system out.
It'll help alleviate transports on main
highway systems.
Because if you've all seen major accidents
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in the middle of wintertime or even the
middle of summertime, it's always a car
that gets hit by a transport because the
vehicle was doing something stupid in front
of a massive vehicle on the road.
And even if it was the transport's fault,
when they wipe out they're more likely to
take out more than one little vehicle.
Now we're not saying you need to develop
these dedicated transportation routes
everywhere, but utilizing them in major
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transportation corridors to alleviate
transport stuck in congestion.
Think about it If you had a dedicated
transport route, like I said, that went
from, let's say, even just Montreal to
Toronto, that would help alleviate all
those transports on the 401.
How many times have you been stuck on the
401 in Toronto, being surrounded by
transports in the middle of the day and
you're like, oh, why can't they just put
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this crap on rail, not understanding that
not everything can be shipped via rail
because there are not enough intermodal
facilities across this country.
If we had more of them, it would help out.
I just want to point that out.
If our Premier of the Province of Ontario
is listening right now, take a listen to
what I'm saying.
These transportation corridors can also be
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utilized in other areas Forestry and mining
Hell.
You can even have them in major farming
institutions.
Make it easier, those dedicated
transportation routes.
You can have dedicated farming routes to
move their equipment on one standard gravel
road that nobody else is allowed to use the
transport systems for mining.
Well, if it's too far in and it's too
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expensive to put rail in, you can utilize
your trucks to move that product.
They're talking about getting in the ring
of fire and building a brand new road up
there.
Sure, railing all that stuff out would be a
lot easier.
But to get in there to build the mines, we
can get a roadway first.
When the roadway is built we're going to
need that to truck stuff in and out
constantly.
Because unless you're going to put an
intermodal facility in Greenstone and then
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one up at every single mine up there, you
might as well just throw it on a truck and
drive it up.
Because literally by the time you get it on
at the intermodal facility, bring you, get
it on at the intermodal facility, bring it
up to the other one and get it off.
That truck could have literally driven that
entire distance and delivered it within
that amount of time.
So you can better utilize transports.
Forestry already kind of has this system in
play with logging roads.
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Logging roads are essentially dedicated
routes built through the backwoods to
access the areas where they're logging.
Now there are other people that do utilize
these roads off-road 4x4 drivers, quads and
side-by-sides, oh, and dirt bikes.
Dirt bikes love to use them too.
Now, even occasionally mountain bikers will
utilize them, but they have to be able to
remember that this is a dedicated
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transportation route set up for only the
transportation of logging trucks, not for
you.
So in a sense, they kind of already exist
in those situations.
Our biggest mainstay for this entire
podcast is about creating the dedicated
transportation routes for the safe travel
of goods across great distances.
Every city's got roads and every city's got
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freeways.
We all have systems in play to move these
goods already, but in areas that are
becoming more and more congested, the
development of dedicated transportation
routes is something that should be put into
play, because moving our goods at a higher
rate of speed than they are moving right
now when they're stuck in traffic, can save
us all time and money, which puts more
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money back in our pocket and more money
into the pockets of the companies that are
shipping them and the shipping companies,
and hell if you don't want to go that far.
You know they're more money into the
pockets of the companies that are shipping
them.
And the shipping companies?
And hell if you don't want to go that far.
You know they're creating the HOV lanes,
the high occupancy vehicle lanes.
If you want to make it simpler, make
dedicated transport lanes on highways.
It's the easiest way to do it.
You can literally have one so you can have
your HOV lane and then a dedicated
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transport lane on the far side.
The only thing you have to do is you have
to make police understand that personal
mobility units are not allowed in that lane,
unless you're literally a transport or a
one-ton diesel pickup truck that's towing
something more than a standard pickup rate.
You're not allowed to use those lanes.
It's for the transportation of goods only.
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It's just a great idea when you really
think about it.
In the end, do we really need this?
Yes, it would help decrease traffic and
congestion in some of the worst areas in
the world.
Everybody always talks about creating these
dedicated highway systems.
They all think by building these big,
limited access highway systems here, there
and everywhere, it's going to help reduce
congestion.
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But no, if you want proof of that, go to
the state of California.
My brother lived there.
He occasionally he'd rent a vehicle for a
couple of days because he'd be going out
and doing stuff and he's traveling along
and even get stuck in traffic in the city
of San Francisco at any time of the day.
He got stuck in traffic at two o'clock in
the morning on a weekday, like why am I
getting stuck in 30 minute backlog of traps?
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Because there are so many highway systems
there and so many people like to go out for
a drive constantly.
They all use the highways.
They don't use the surface roads.
So by creating more and more highways we're
not reducing congestion, we're just
creating more options for people to get
around.
So in the province of Ontario the Premier
is actually looking at building a brand new,
slightly ring road from the Highway 400 all
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the way to the 401 to try and reduce
congestion for transportation units called
the 413.
But he's going to be opening it up to
everything Now.
The Transportation Network has already
stated that the 407 should become a
dedicated transport route.
All transport should not have to pay to
utilize that.
Vehicles should be charged because they're
using a highway system that was intended
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for the movements of goods and the 407 goes
through all major industrial park areas.
That's amazingly great idea.
Charge cars, not truck, kind of like those
congestion charges.
Maybe those are things you have to start
looking at.
If you can't afford to build these
dedicated transportation routes, you have
to look at the alternatives Dedicated
transport lanes, tolling standard vehicles
to keep congestion down or essentially
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pushing trucks onto their own dedicated
surface routes.
All I know is that we really need to do
something about this, because every time I
go down to Toronto, I always get stuck
going from the 400 onto the 401.
And every time I'm stuck trying to exit on
those two lanes that merge very quickly.
On the other side there's always a ton of
transport sitting next to me.
A lot of people bitch and complain about it,
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but I don't.
I sit there and look at that and I
literally see dollar signs just being blown
out the window as that truck moves slower
and slower.
He's losing money.
I'm only losing time.
They're more important to the economy than
I am.
Just remember that the transport's moving
the goods does more for the economy than
you sitting in your car.
So, yes, let's create these dedicated
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transport routes and let's get off our
asses and try and build a viable
transportation network for the movement of
goods only where we take the personal
mobility units out of the equation.
We've been trying everything to get people
to take public transit systems for years.
Maybe the next step is to literally strip
them of their highway system.
In the end, who's going to win?
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Well, if maximum overdrive has taught us
anything, the trucks will always win.
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routes.
See if they like the idea.
Maybe we could start something.
Maybe we could push the governments to try
and at least give it a test phase to build
one of these dedicated highway routes.
Hey, it's worth a shot.
You have to remember the interstate system.
The original limited access highway was
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given a shot too, and we all went for it.
Now let's try and give the transportation
infrastructure world something new to look
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