Airline Highway (was:Re: WTAG-TV? I-86)

[Larry Weil]

At 6:03 PM -0500 11/25/09, Roger Kirk wrote:
>
>Amen to the straightening - major improvement.  In addition to 
>widening, they've added several "Slow Truck" passing lanes.  When my 
>wife is driving, we make Calais from Bangor in 90 minutes.  Assuming 
>no fog, no snow & no ice.  Haven't had the pleasure of a moose 
>sighting yet, though.  Several times, the wait at the border has 
>exceeded the traveling time.  Now, trucks take a different route.

The US and Canadian governments just opened a new border crossing 
including a new bridge between Callis and St. Steven.  Hopefully this 
will alive the long waits at the border, I guess next summer will be 
the real test.

-- 
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH