New Highway Will Make PdB Access from Minnesota Easier

It's not talked about much yet. Remember, "You heard it here first, on the PdB Homeowners Association website!" Anyway, there is a new highway under construction which will go all the way from Minnesota to Mexico.

This is the map of the route. You can see that it doesn't go all the way to Punta del Burro, but it will be pretty close. Although I haven't done the drive myself on existing roads, I have talked to people who have and they agree it's not as easy as driving on US interstate. So, that's about to change for the better. Construction will begin in Texas next year. Here's an excerpt from this article:

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.
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...the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush.

You can also get more information from this site.

From what I understand, this is part of the plan for the US to eventually merge with Canada and Mexico. This should make visiting and living at PdB much easier eventually. Here's an excerpt from a report "Building a North American Community: Report of an Independent Task Force. Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales".

The Task Force offers a detailed and ambitious set of proposals that build on the recommendations adopted by the three governments at the Texas summit of March 2005. The Task Force’s central recommendation is establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter.

You can download the entire report here (PDF, 295 KB).