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Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway)
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A Concerned Canadian
User ID: 709043
 Canada
8/27/2009 3:28 PM
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The so called "Superhighway" is well under way here. South of my city here I found the sign that says "Future major intersection for The Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative. Funded by blah blah blah" It has already begun at the west coast. Should arrive in my town soon.
Good times are heading our way.
What about in the states. Any construction going on?
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Canada has announced a plan to extend the NAFTA Superhighway network north in a way that would finish a continental grid designed to accommodate an anticipated tsunami of containers from China and the Far East
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The Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative
The Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative responds to the challenges facing the Gateway and opportunities emerging in global commerce. It includes significant new investments, policies and regulatory measures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor, and Canada’s exploitation of it. The Initiative also sets directions for ongoing collaboration, future actions and long-term strategy.
It is based on the following core elements:
1. STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE
2. PRIVATE INVESTMENT AND INNOVATION
3. SECURITY AND BORDER EFFICIENCY
4. 21ST CENTURY GOVERNANCE
5. POLICY RENEWAL
Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Investments $591 million
Immediate Commitments: $321 million
Future Investments: $260.8 million
Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Transportation Infrastructure Fund $233.5 million
Competitiveness Initiatives (non-infrastructure) $27.3 million
Moving Forward: $9.2 million
A fast-track process to identify further priorities, develop and implement long-term strategy and foster ongoing collaboration.
parliament
The $591-million Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative is part of an unprecedented level of support for infrastructure in Canada. The May 2006 Budget included a total of $16.5 billion in federal support for provincial, territorial and municipal infrastructure.
[link to www.pacificgateway.gc.ca]
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Security, Risk and Information Management
Gateway and corridors require not only that goods move seamlessly across modes and geographic boundaries as well as political boundaries, it also necessitates the transfer of enormous amounts of information between parties (economic, business, political, security) to ensure that the title of goods is clear and the shipment is routed effectively across modes and across the variety of jurisdictions. This theme area will commission papers which explore the significance of the role of information in supporting the development of gateway and corridors, facilitating trade flows in the presence of border security and in efficiently allocating risk among the various parties. Papers developed or commissioned for this area will draw on the Calgary roundtable which will explore how a secure supply chain, using security risk management systems, secure infrastructure and internationally recognized security standards or best practices can be used as an enabler to increase competitive advantage for Canada’s ports through the Pacific Gateway initiative vis-à-vis other North American ports.
A second set of papers will examine how information can be best coordinated to improve intermodal integration and how improvements in overall transportation security with regards to existing and anticipated security requirements in all modes will help to secure gateways and corridors and explore if gateway and corridor security is the sum of security in all modes or if there is an intrinsic gateway or corridor security.
A third set of papers will be commissioned to consider how the following areas can be fused to develop an integrated, secure and efficient gateway; advanced cargo manifest information use by logistics providers, port authorities, the public and private sector in the development of reporting mechanisms; the use of inter-operative technologies, (i.e. RFID use, container tracking technology, electronic seals, and/or smart boxes); and the development of “Green Lanes” (i.e. FAST-style lanes, both the number of lanes and types of inspection equipment built there in).
[link to www.gateway-corridor.com]
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 738234
 United States
8/27/2009 3:40 PM | | Re: Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway) | Quote |
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A Concerned Canadian
User ID: 709043
Canada
8/27/2009 3:45 PM
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Deal creates path
for NAFTA railway
Connects Canada to Mexico
through heart of the U.S.
An important acquisition announced this month by Canadian Pacific positions the railroad to be North America's first continental NAFTA super-railway, connecting Canada with Mexico through the heart of the U.S., roughly parallel to Interstate 35.
[link to www.wnd.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 757787
United States
8/27/2009 3:46 PM | | Re: Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway) | Quote |
Are these old documents. OP?
The reason I ask is because there is currently no "tsunami" of cargo coming in from Asia. It's broken down considerably in the past year and, IMO, likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
I'm just south of the BC border and see no evidence of super highway building down here.
They're expanding the Peace Arch border crossing, for the *huge crowds* expected for the Olympics (ha!) but, other than that, nothing. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 757787
United States
8/27/2009 3:48 PM | | Re: Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway) | Quote |
Ah, this is east of here if you're connecting with the "heartland".
What Province are you in , OP? |
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A Concerned Canadian
User ID: 709043
Canada
8/27/2009 3:54 PM
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Are these old documents. OP?
The reason I ask is because there is currently no "tsunami" of cargo coming in from Asia. It's broken down considerably in the past year and, IMO, likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
I'm just south of the BC border and see no evidence of super highway building down here.
They're expanding the Peace Arch border crossing, for the *huge crowds* expected for the Olympics (ha!) but, other than that, nothing. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 757787
I guess there would be no tsunami of cargo coming in until they get the project done.
Logic would dictate.
They are preparing for it looks like.
They started construction in 2007 as far as I can tell. I see the sign in my neighborhood that the intersection is coming. I believe the construction started in Surry,BC and travels through the west to ontario, then down south through the states. |
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A Concerned Canadian
User ID: 709043
Canada
8/27/2009 3:54 PM
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Ah, this is east of here if you're connecting with the "heartland".
What Province are you in , OP? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 757787
Sk |
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A Concerned Canadian
User ID: 709043
Canada
8/27/2009 4:08 PM
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This has been going on for many years now.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
NAFTA Superhighway
Further information: NAFTA superhighway
Interstate 29 and Interstate 35.
The proposed Trans-Texas Corridor toll-road project includes one proposal (TTC-35) to primarily parallel I-35 from the Mexico border up to the Oklahoma border.[11] There are major disagreements as to what impact this parallel route would have on I-35 in terms of traffic, maintenance, and commerce.
The Trans-Texas Corridor was first proposed by Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2002. It consists of a 1,200 foot (366 m) wide highway that also carries utilities such as electricity, petroleum and water as well as railway track and fiber-optic cables.[12] In July 2007, U.S. Representative and candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election Duncan Hunter successfully offered an amendment to House Resolution 3074, the FY2008 Transportation Appropriations Act, prohibiting the use of federal funds for Department of Transportation participation in the activities of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). Hunter stated that: "Unfortunately, very little is known about the NAFTA Super Highway. This amendment will provide Congress the opportunity to exercise oversight of the highway, which remains a subject of question and uncertainty, and ensure that our safety and security will not be compromised in order to promote the business interests of our neighbors."[13] Fellow Republican Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul brought the issue to mainstream prominence during the December 2007 CNN-YouTube GOP debate, where he rejected the concept and also called it the NAFTA Superhighway after the North American Free Trade Agreement and, like Hunter, framed it within the ultimate goal of creating a North American Union. |
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A Concerned Canadian
User ID: 709043
Canada
8/27/2009 4:20 PM
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The I35 is already being used as the NAFTA Superhighway. They need better infrastructure. Up here in the north they are building it.
Built it and they will come.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 757811
United States
8/27/2009 4:42 PM | | Re: Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway) | Quote |
It sounds like people living along the highway route are going to have to get involved in this.
At the least, it will make people who are NOT along the route more aware of what's going on.
I've heard about protests in Texas over this a couple years ago.
No word on other parts of the States.
I'm not along the route so have nothing more to add.
So how about it? People in areas of the US where this thing is scheduled to go? What are you seeing? |
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A Concerned Canadian
User ID: 709043
Canada
8/27/2009 5:48 PM
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It sounds like people living along the highway route are going to have to get involved in this.
At the least, it will make people who are NOT along the route more aware of what's going on.
I've heard about protests in Texas over this a couple years ago.
No word on other parts of the States.
I'm not along the route so have nothing more to add.
So how about it? People in areas of the US where this thing is scheduled to go? What are you seeing? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 757811
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A Concerned Canadian
User ID: 709043
Canada
8/27/2009 5:55 PM
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Winnipeg will be a major hub in this network.
CentrePort Canada: Winnipeg Inland Port
[link to www.winnipeginlandport.ca]
The government of Manitoba has introduced legislation to build an "inland port" around Winnipeg's James Armstrong Richardson International Airport. Intended to take advantage of the city's proximity to the geographic centre of North America, the CentrePort Canada Act would authorize the creation of a corporation to oversee the "port", and to fast track "investment and economic development decisions based upon a single, comprehensive transportation, infrastructure and land-use plan" for approximately 20,000 acres of land around the airport.
CentrePort Canada is centrally and strategically located at the heart of North America to connect businesses to world markets. CentrePort Canada, Manitoba’s inland port, is 20,000 acres of land anchored at Winnipeg’s James Armstrong Richardson International Airport. CentrePort Canada offers greenfield investment opportunities for a wide variety of sectors including distribution centres, warehousing and manufacturing.
North America
CentrePort Canada is located on the International Mid-Continent
Trade and Transportation Corridor, providing ready access to major markets in the United States and Mexico via the Emerson Border. Manitoba is also in the centre of Canada with strong east-west transportation corridors.
Asia
CentrePort Canada provides direct access to Asian markets via
Canada’s Asia-Pacific Gateway. Shippers and manufacturers
transport goods by road and rail to Canada’s two main western
seaports, Vancouver and Prince Rupert.
Europe
CentrePort Canada’s unique access to northern trade routes
provides entry to European markets as well. Air shipments can be transported via polar routes through Winnipeg’s James Armstrong Richardson International Airport. Marine shipping opportunities are increasing through the northern Port of Churchill and St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes via Thunder Bay.
[link to www.winnipeginlandport.ca]
[link to www.winnipeginlandport.ca]
[link to www.winnipeginlandport.ca] |
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TX PATRIOT
User ID: 757513
 Thailand
8/27/2009 6:00 PM | | Re: Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway) | Quote |
This has been going on for many years now.
[ link to en.wikipedia.org]
NAFTA Superhighway
Further information: NAFTA superhighway
Interstate 29 and Interstate 35.
The proposed Trans-Texas Corridor toll-road project ...
Quite a bit more on that subject found here:
NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY, TRANS TX CORRIDOR and NAU - SOURCE THREAD
[link to www.godlikeproductions.com]
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Mickeyblue
User ID: 330969
United States
8/27/2009 6:04 PM | | Re: Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway) | Quote |
China has entered into an agreement with Panama to rebuild the canal to accomodate VLCCs that will carry 12,000 cargo containers, shipping them via the canal and docking and off loading at Mexican ports, then transporting up through the Kansas City, Missouri point of legal entry via this country(Mexican port however) and then up into Canada.
This is moving along quite rapidly. |
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TX PATRIOT
User ID: 757513
Thailand
8/27/2009 6:08 PM | | Re: Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway) | Quote |
China has entered into an agreement with Panama to rebuild the canal to accomodate VLCCs that will carry 12,000 cargo containers, shipping them via the canal and docking and off loading at Mexican ports, then transporting up through the Kansas City, Missouri point of legal entry via this country(Mexican port however) and then up into Canada.
This is moving along quite rapidly. Quoting: Mickeyblue 330969
For anyone who might be interested, details of the Mexican port and the inland Smart Port info is contained within the thread I linked above.
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TX PATRIOT
User ID: 757513
Thailand
8/27/2009 6:10 PM | | Re: Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway) | Quote |
For anyone who might be interested, details of the Mexican port and the inland Smart Port info is contained within the thread I linked above.
. Quoting: TX PATRIOT 757513
s/b "are" not "is"
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A Concerned Canadian
User ID: 709043
Canada
8/27/2009 6:13 PM
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This has been going on for many years now.
[ link to en.wikipedia.org]
NAFTA Superhighway
Further information: NAFTA superhighway
Interstate 29 and Interstate 35.
The proposed Trans-Texas Corridor toll-road project ...
Quite a bit more on that subject found here:
NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY, TRANS TX CORRIDOR and NAU - SOURCE THREAD
[ link to www.godlikeproductions.com]
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Thnx
I see it coming into fruition here. I am trying to find a date they expect this all to be complete. In our industrial area of town there are many 100's of acres of land around our airport with much development going on. No buildings yet, but the power, water and other vital infrastructures are being set.
There is a boom coming on the horizon. I can feel it.
Last Edited by A Concerned Canadian on 8/27/2009 at 6:14 PM |
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TX PATRIOT
User ID: 757513
Thailand
8/27/2009 6:28 PM | | Re: Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway) | Quote |
Thnx
I see it coming into fruition here. I am trying to find a date they expect this all to be complete. In our industrial area of town there are many 100's of acres of land around our airport with much development going on. No buildings yet, but the power, water and other vital infrastructures are being set.
There is a boom coming on the horizon. I can feel it. Quoting: A Concerned Canadian
Concerned, a construction project this size would take ten plus years to complete. That is the timeframe they were estimating years ago in TX before we put a stop to the project. Temporary as it is. We have to be extremely vigilant as they are very underhanded, sneaky and shady. They are jonesin' for this highway.
But rest assured one thing: even if they build the highway(s) in Canada, there won't be much commercial traffic on it if we are successful in keeping the construction at bay in TX. What they are planning will simply not work without the highway segments in TX. The cargo will bottleneck in MX.
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A Concerned Canadian
User ID: 709043
Canada
8/27/2009 6:55 PM
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Concerned, a construction project this size would take ten plus years to complete. That is the timeframe they were estimating years ago in TX before we put a stop to the project. Temporary as it is. We have to be extremely vigilant as they are very underhanded, sneaky and shady. They are jonesin' for this highway.
But rest assured one thing: even if they build the highway(s) in Canada, there won't be much commercial traffic on it if we are successful in keeping the construction at bay in TX. What they are planning will simply not work without the highway segments in TX. The cargo will bottleneck in MX.
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I here ya. I have noticed the name for the highway here has changed into The Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative. In spring of this year when the gov revealed the budget for these roads in Sask, everyone loved the idea that the roads to the lakes were being repaved.
Morans.
They are building these shiny new roads to our forests, fresh lake areas, mineral and precious metal deposits. We are gonna get raped by this.
No one here really has a clue whats going on. Its all good too them. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 757938
United States
8/27/2009 8:23 PM | | Re: Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway) | Quote |
OP, sounds like you've got to educate people in your area on this.
There's got to be at least a few who feel as you do in Saskatchewan.
If you can't find them, reach a bit further, Alberta, BC, Ontario, whatever it takes.
You also should consider an outreach to the people of Texas who've managed to hault it for now.
One person on their own can't accomplish anything. |
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A Concerned Canadian
User ID: 709043
Canada
8/27/2009 9:13 PM
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OP, sounds like you've got to educate people in your area on this.
There's got to be at least a few who feel as you do in Saskatchewan.
If you can't find them, reach a bit further, Alberta, BC, Ontario, whatever it takes.
You also should consider an outreach to the people of Texas who've managed to hault it for now.
One person on their own can't accomplish anything. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 757938
Ya im not gonna chain myself to the superhighway thats for sure.
But how? |
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TX PATRIOT
User ID: 758266
Thailand
8/28/2009 12:37 PM | | Re: Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridors Initiative[Superhighway) | Quote |
Ya im not gonna chain myself to the superhighway thats for sure.
But how? Quoting: A Concerned Canadian
Concerned, I can put you in touch with a couple of people who can provide invaluable assistance and direction to you if you are serious about this effort. They are activist leaders in TX for this cause. One is an expert in the area of toll roads.
Just let me know if you are sincerely interested.
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