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Originally Posted by habernac
The current 2 lane highway was woefully inadequate long before the boom of the last 10 years. I lived there from 81-95 when there were 35,000 people there, and it needed to be twinned back then. The situation has been ignored since the 70's, it's not a new problem.
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That's highly unlikely seeing as the population of Fort McMurray in the 70's was under 7,000 people. So ignoring a transportation problem seems a little far fetched.
The boom of population in the early 80's saw the population grow from 30,000 in 1980 to almost 37,000 by 1985. This boom in growth was followed by a sharp decline to under 34,000 people by the end of the decade. When growth of a city like this follows the ups and downs of oil prices so darastically it's almost impossible to get government involved in pouring millions of dollars into infrastructure.