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On Aug 5, 9:46 pm, wrote:
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I believe that I 25 is part of the Pan American Highway (the closest
thing there is to the "North American Union Superhighway"). I believe
it ends somewhere about a third of the way short of the Canadian
border, so I don't know what other routes are used from there. The
only multilane highway that connects central Mexico (where most of the
population is) to the US is Autopista 15, running along the Sinaloa
coast (through such places as Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan) to
Nogales, near Yuma. Other Mexican roads are in the area of northern
Mexico, but all become narrow two lane roads at some point. There is
virtually no land road connection between Baja California and mainland
Mexico, except for one narrow road-ferries are used. A single two lane
road runs from Vancouver, Canada to Alaska, and it makes several
twists and turns and number changes along the way. There are no roads
into the vast heart of Canada, which is mainly peopled by native
tribes. Most of the population lives within a few hundred miles of the
US border.

Paved roads are relatively new-100 years ago even America had mainly
rutted wagon paths and steer herding trails as "roads". FDR built a
network of two lane roads, but it took Eisenhower to build the
interstates-and HE had been inspired by the autobahns of Nazi Germany.
Hitler built a partial network of roads, only to have them destroyed
in the war. The US took the lead in developing European roads. Outside
of the US and Europe, roads are extremely primitive to nonexistent.
120 years after the invention of the automobile, most places in the
world don't have roads. Railroads are more common, but even then many
lines have been abandoned in civil wars or simply neglected until they
fell apart like in North Korea.

A superhighway from Guatemala to Prudhoe Bay is a fantasy, and will
largely remain so even under the proposed "North American Union". The
US is disinclined to make the sort of public works investments that
would be necessary to build such a road, much less maintain it.
Eisenhower quieted critics who said that we couldn't afford the
interstates by pushing maintenance of the system off onto the states,
who have failed. Bridges are collapsing. Interstate 80 through the
Sierra Nevada actually has ruts in it from 40 years of snow chain
wearing tires in winter. People are increasingly unwilling to drive
from CA to Reno to gamble because the road is so bad. The system is
falling apart, and with a new Great Depression on the horizon, it will
be allowed to deteriorate further until it is largely unusable. Then
we'll probably see a return to the rails.