Diesel on Cassier Highway
I will need diesel at least once on the Cassier before hitting the Alcan. GasBuddy's not showing much but don't know how good GB is in Canada. Are there stations along the highwy which carry diese...
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Beentherefixedthat wrote:
As much traffic as travels those roads the relative lack of cell service outside of towns is disgraceful. Cell technology is relatively cheap now and easy to install. Much of those routes could have been covered long ago.
It's only relatively easy and cheap to install where there is some infrastructure available already. Where you don't have power lines (and have long dark nights for half the year), it gets a good bit more expensive to install and maintain. Likewise it gets more costly when you need to string fiber or set up microwave links to connect to the rest of the phone network. When comparatively few people will be using the infrastructure, it's hard to make any business case that spending many dollars to carry a handful of conversations or text messages a day is at all worthwhile.
