To quote (almost), Simple is as simple does.

Can't argue an unurgueable fact.

And how much is the obvious costing this time out? And who is paying for this little event?

If we're going to be a logistics city, somebody needs to look at a map and admit this is Central, not Northern, BC. For too long, anything past Whistler has been considered "The North".

4 laning our hwy's from Prince Rupert through to the Alberta border, (where they have real roads)and from Dawson Creek to Hope would work wonders.

I hope the highway is being planned with the environment in mind.

"If we're going to be a logistics city, somebody needs to look at a map and admit this is Central, not Northern, BC"

Exactly! That is why it is called the NEW North. The Peace and Liard regions are the OLD North.

Isn't the real version of Newspeak wonderful?

Pretty soon we will become the SMART NEW North.

I could see this coming when they started referring to PG as BC's Northern Capital. I guess with the ignorance of geography and the lack of realizing that there is only one capital of the province, who can expect anything less confusing and even infuriating to those who have been living in the geographic north.

When highways are planned, they are always planned with the environment in mind. The problem is that is typically were much of that part of the planning stays.

Most of this hyperbole is because of the coming election in May. You can call it the New North if you want, but that is just so much BS. Same as being the Northern Capital, whoever thought that one up. I suppose Kelowna is the Southern Capital, and Creston is the Eastern Capital, and of course Prince Rupert would be the Western Capital.

Talking about a Transportation Corridor is also BS. The CN Rail has been here since 1918, and so has the Port of Prince Rupert. BC Rail was here in the early 1960's, and we have had 97 South, 97 North, 16 West for years, and 16 East to Mcbride was finished in the 60's I beleive.
The Prince George Airport had two Major Airlines here in the 60's and 70's, Air Canada, and Canadian Pacific Air, and they handled lots of Air Cargo.

These dudes would have you beleive that the Transportation corridor is something new. It is older than the hills, and guess what?? It is not going to produce any more industry in the next 10 years, than it did in the last 10 years.

Even if they did get some Wide Body Cargo jets to land at Prince George for refueling, which is highly unlikely, it would at best create 6 or 8 jobs.

No major Cargo Carrier is going to locate in Prince George because to do so would not make any sense. Where would this Air Cargo go?? We are thousands of miles away from any major markets, and it would be ludicrous to handle cargo here to go somewhere else. What Airlines would fly this Cargo out of Prince George??? We dont have a direct flight to anywhere except Vancouver.

The CN Container Terminal is a bust, and will never amount to anything. It matters little to industry in this area if they ship through the Port of Vancouver, or the Port of Prince Rupert as the costs are basically the same. As it now stands all export commodities out of this area go through the Port of Vancouver as they have been doing for the past 25 years. Even if they did go through Pr Rupert it would not create any new jobs.

Unless people can be more specific about what Industry is going to locate in Prince George, and what they are going to produce, and how many jobs they will create, then it is all BS.

Every indication for the next 10 years is that we will be losing a significant number of jobs, and we will see a decline in population. There is nothing of any substance to indicate otherwise.

The US link via Canada, Alaska to the Russian Far East - that would be a new one.

We should start advocating for that so that it comes through Central BC and Cascadia rather than going through Alberta.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1680121.ece