"This project is an excellent example of the three levels of government partnering for the betterment of Prince George,” said Bell. “We are stimulating the local economy with job creation as well as strategically preparing Prince George to maximize its positive position in the post-recession recovery."

http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2009-2013/2009TRAN0025-000484.htm

The 1930's depression was caused because of too much debt in the economy. Our present financial crisis was also caused by too much debt in the economy. You cannot solve a problem which was caused by too much debt by going further into debt. All this "stimulating the economy" stuff does is push off the "day of reckoning" for "all of the borrowing and spending we have done" into the future. Piling on more debt is just going to make the enevitable economic crash that is coming worse when it does come. It's time to face the music folks. We have not been smart with money.

Congressman Clifford Stearns said the following in the United States House of Representatives on April 28, 2009:

Many economists look to the past to predict economic futures; it is a tested way to learn from past mistakes and avoid making them in the future. Looking to the past, we discover that Henry Morganthau, FDR's Treasury Secretary, gave this very important quote in May of 1939 during the Great Depression. He said, ``We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. I have just one interest, and now if I am wrong, somebody else can have my job.
I want to see this country prosper. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. I say, after 8 years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started, and enormous debt to boot.''

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=8958063

Scrap Boundary and fix our existing goat trails.

"You cannot solve a problem which was caused by too much debt by going further into debt."

Hovver tried to solve the problem of the depression by using volunteer labour. Amazingly, not paying anyone didn't solve a thing.

So, instead of paying, since we would go more into debt if we did that, why don't we just sit around and do nothing? In fact, let the things we have built up in the past crumble around us. Maybe some new civilization in 500 years or so will start to look as little bit more positively at the state of the union and start rebuilding what we messed up and led to the second dark ages.

Actually that would be Hoover .... :-)

All three levels of government are broke (in deep debt) yet we are building a road with bike trail, sidewalk and lights all the way. There are no houses out there. Does anyone else see the WRONG in all this? Our street has no sidewalk! Spend, Spend, spend and raise taxes. Next year we are further in the whole and raise taxes again. Can someone please tell me why we are not doing anything about any of this? We have a council who are the highest paid in BC and they can not balance the budget. They give themselves a raise and have the gall to raise taxes less than a month later. I have not had a raise since this whole recession started and I don’t see one coming. If the budget is in the red, most businesses do not hand out raises. I find this the biggest slap in the face and bold. They are laughing at us on all levels of government, we look like sheep. We deserve to suffer for what we are doing to the future of our children and grandchildren. And the biggest atrocity is what we are allowing them to do to our elderly. Shame on us for allowing government to run us over. They will not stop taking until we say ENOUGH! Makes me laugh just typing that last sentence. What a pipe dream!

We already have a connector for Highway 16 and 97, the old Cariboo highway. I guess more is better

I guess the star gazers are looking ahead so that we will be able to suppotr a 200,000 plus population.
cheers

They can always turn it into a super long runway if there is no traffic using it.

"We already have a connector for Highway 16 and 97, the old Cariboo highway"

I don't think there is much adjacent land that could be used for commercial development on Old Cariboo. Most of the land bordering it is already developed as residential in nature.

With this years reduced construction prices, it is expected that this project will be completed well within the stipulated budget.