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Transportation in North America

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system, whose quality ranges from being on par with a high-quality European motorway to an unpaved gravelled back road that can extend hundreds of miles. There is also an extensive transcontinental freight rail network, but passenger railway ridership is lower than in Europe and Asia.
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Mexico also has a very large road network, 323,977 km worth of roads. Of these, 96,221 km are paved (this is including 6,335 km of expressways) The remainder (227,756 km worth) is unpaved. Since 1991, Mexico has been building
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system. The only gap in this inter-provincial expressway network (one can travel from Windsor to Halifax using expressways, but this involves crossing into the United States to use their Interstate Highway network, and back into Canada) between
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cables and power lines. The tunnel project was estimated to cost $ 65 billion and take 15–20 years to build. In addition to the Russian government, sponsors of the project apparently include
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which cross otherwise impassable wetlands only in cold weather, and unpaved mountain roads that turn to mud in the spring. The road network does not reach all settlements, and some remote
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would be roughly 9,500 km (5,900 mi) in distance, while a trip around Cape Horn would be 22,500 km (14,000 mi) in length. The Canal functions similarly to the
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Most of the continent's busiest airports are in the United States. In fact the U.S. has 9 of North America's 10 busiest airports, including the world's busiest,
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spanning the entire island. An automobile tunnel would be most likely unfeasible due to the length needed to cross the strait, and the difficulties of removing
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spanning the entire island. An automobile tunnel would be most likely unfeasible due to the length needed to cross the strait, and the difficulties of removing
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The United States road network is the largest in the world, with 6.4 million km (4 million mi) of roadways. 75,360 km (46,830 mi) of those are
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and bringing in fresh air via large circulation fans throughout the tunnel. Labrador is, however, connected to the continental road network via the
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that link its major cities together. Currently, there are 6,335 km worth of toll freeways in the country, with the numbering scheme of
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west have their own networks of highways (the majority of which are not expressways or divided highways), with Winnipeg also having its own
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arrived in 1492, right up until the First World War. Though their use has diminished somewhat with the arrival of rail transportation, the
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networks of America and Canada, and with the debut of air travel, they are still widely used for transporting goods from the American
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Many settlements in Alaska are disconnected from the continental road network except by ferry or boat, including the capital
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between the United Kingdom and France. This has stalled due to the lack of a large road network and a lack of rail lines in
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between the United Kingdom and France. This has stalled due to the lack of a large road network and a lack of rail lines in
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network, as it is mostly two-lane without freeway sections, aside from in and near large population centres, such as
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and Alaska. The tunnel, as projected, would be 60 miles (100 km) long and would include oil and gas pipelines,
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Although Alaska is not connected to the North American rail network, there have been proposals to connect it via
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in the world, being well over 2000 miles from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, yet they still can cater to
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standards in some areas but poor-quality gravel or unpaved roads in others. The road network extends from
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In April 2007 the Russian government announced that it was considering building a rail tunnel under the
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being the number of the road bypassed, such as 45, with toll freeway as 45-D, meaning 45 Diversion).
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lines (3 ft 6 in or 1,070 mm narrow-gauge) in 1988–1990, turning it into the
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Central America's roadway network continues, linking every major city and capital, via the
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communities to the mainland and to Alaska. There is also automobile ferry service between
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communities are only accessible by seasonal road, open land, sea, or air transport. Some
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Waterways were the primary method of transportation of people and goods, and used by
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Although Canada does not have a federal-level network of expressways, provinces from
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is a formidable obstacle to railroads, and no railways cross it into South America.
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currently operates one of the world's busiest and most familiar waterways, the
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to the mainland of North America via a 17 km-long rail tunnel under the
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and bringing in fresh air via large circulation fans throughout the tunnel.
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are connected to Costa Rica. The country had two gauges: originally
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South of Guatemala, there are numerous breaks of gauge, such as
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In 2004 the provincial government studied the feasibility of a
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Possible route of a bridge or tunnel across the Bering Strait.
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to the mainland of North America via a 17 km-long rail
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Hearst; Associated Press, "Bering Strait tunnel proposed".
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Ontario is the only province to contain its own system of
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or private boat. Notable disconnected islands include the
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are inter-linked by provincial-level freeways: Ontario's
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spans the country along with its auxiliary branches. The
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or endpoints of the rail network are, in the north, at
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North American Transportation Statistics Interchange
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Air travel first entered as a viable alternative to
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According to Google Maps directions, 25 March 2012.
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Index

Transport in North America
transportation

Rail transport in Canada
Rail transport in the United States
standard gauge
railheads
Hay River, Northwest Territories
Tapachula
Vancouver Island
Alaska Railroad
Labrador City
Sept-ĂŽles, Quebec
proposals to link
Newfoundland
tunnel
Strait of Belle Isle
flatcars
Channel Tunnel
Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador
Canadian National
Newfoundland Railway
3 ft 6 in
Newfoundland T'Railway
rail trail
automobile exhaust
BC Rail
Dease Lake
Jackson, British Columbia

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