Travel in Canada---roads paved or rock?
We are going to Canada in June and July. Driving through Canada to Alaska. Pulling a 5th wheel. We were told today that most of the roads in Canada are not paved. We should get protection for fron...
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leaddog wrote:
Paved vs unpaved roads in Canada in Kilometers in 2003
Paved Unpaved
Total 415.6 626.6 1,042.2 100.0 39.9 60.1
Source(s): Transport Canada, 2008, Transportation in Canada 2007: An Overview, Addendum, Catalogue no. TP 14816E, p. A85.
Unpaved 60.1%
Paved 39.1 %
Canada paved roads
Unites States paved roads % 67% in 2008
US Paved roads 2008
Note the slight difference in percentages. In both countries, most of the highways are paved. Most of the city streets are paved. Any road that gets a lot of traffic will be paved, because it is cheaper to pave a heavily traveled road than to try to maintain it as a dirt road.
There are regional differences. I live in a part of the U.S. where closer to half the road mileage is still unpaved. Guess what? I seldom drive on those roads. They are going back into somebody's ranch, or to a well site, not where I'm going. It is going to be the same in rural Canada. The highways you need to travel will be paved. Little used access roads into seldom visited remote areas will not be paved.
