Sunday, May 27, 2012

Maine's East-West Highway: savior or albatross?

My story in today's Maine Sunday Telegram explores the proposed East-West Highway plan, a $2 billion private toll road connecting Calais/St.Stephen, NB with Coburn Gore and south-Central Quebec. At this writing, it's the most read story on the newspaper's website today.

As you'll see, whether the plan appears to be a good idea or not has a lot to do with your mind set and frame of reference.

There's also a companion story from my colleague Tux Turkel on why the highway's promoter, Cianbro head Peter Vigue, travels with bodyguards.

For fellow policy wonks, I'll be adding a few documents to this post when I have an extra few minutes this weekend.

[Update, 6/5/12: An update on the Quebec angle to this story.]

2 comments:

  1. They are planing to go down the Shirley tote Road! There is no such road. Also Shirley is a small town that would be destroyed by this. And why did Cinbro lay off most of their workers? Is this really a company we can trust to keep our way of life!

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  2. THere is a Shirley Tote ROad but it can hardly be called a road

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