It’s not easy to tell from the CBC report whether the government reps called it “completion”, or the CBC interpolated the term.
But the Ministry of Truth reports that “up to $51-million”, which isn’t the same thing as $51-million, and which is the same pot of money that will fund the Argentia access project, is being funneled into the TLH for a
project that will see 200 kilometres of the [Trans-Labrador] highway widened* this summer, and 40 kilometres hard-topped.**The Trans-Labrador Highway, as defined in the National Highway System report, is 1163 kilometres long, from the border near Labrador City to the Blanc Sablon ferry terminal.
A hundred or so of those 1163 kilometres, between Happy Valley-Goose Bay and Paradise River, do not even exist yet.
How, other than in some parallel universe, does widening 200 kilometres, and hard-topping 40, constitute “completion” of the Trans-Labrador Highway?
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* Why didn’t the provincial government build the TLH to width to begin with?
** Does “hard-top” mean “chip seal”, the same surfacing substance that a certain provincial cabinet minister once derided as “cheap seal”?
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