Monday, February 15, 2016

Under construction: A Canadian road to the Arctic Ocean




The Road to the Top of the World.  (The New York Times, 2/11/2016)
Amid these roads, a new one is being built, an 85-mile sliver topped with gravel in Canada’s Northwest Territories. It will link the town of Inuvik to the smaller village of Tuktoyaktuk, known locally as Tuk. Anywhere else, its creation would be minor, a rounding error for departments. But this road is different, because Tuk sits on the Arctic Ocean. It would be the only public highway to its shores and would fulfill a decades-old dream to link all three Canadian coasts — Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic.

Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Mackenzie Valley Highway homepage

From April 2015 annual report



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