We Drove The Cariboo Connector: One Man's Opinion

By Ben Meisner

Our family wanted to do something different on the long weekend, you know step out a bit, show some leg, live on the wild side.

Not with standing the fact that the gasoline bandits were out to get our money, we decided to throw caution to the wind…. and travel down the,”Cariboo Connector”

Before you criticize, have you done it?  Well,  just travel south of Red Rock and suddenly appearing like the yellow brick  road to  Dorothy and Toto,  there it is, the  "Cariboo Connector " all  2.5 Kilometers of divided highway just beckoning those who would dare.

Why in the world do we ever criticize the government for treating the north like a bunch of bush bunnies?  After all they are only spending   $1 Billion dollars on roads  in the 604, while we’ve  got the  "Cariboo Connector”!

Thinks about it, 2.5 kilometers every year, times 131 years will mean that it will be completed by 2138, I don’t think I’ll be able to wait to see it finished.

So for all of you  who think just because the 2010 is taking place (I don’t think you can say Olympics without paying them some money ) and all of the cash that the province has is going into the lower mainland or the bills that will come after the Olympics , think again .   We have the, "Cariboo Connector”.

I am told  (although forgive me if I missed it last week when we drove south)  that the Cariboo Connector has another section down somewhere about 30 kilometers south of Quesnel. That has to be our next adventure so we can say we drove it as well!

How come you people from Tourism Prince George haven’t got some bumper stickers printed that say,”We drove the Cariboo Connector”?  That one single move could result in people, maybe just maybe, coming from all over the world to drive, “The Cariboo Connector." 

My goodness but we folks in the North certainly do get special treatment!

I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s opinion

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