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| | TC - Strategic Highway Infrastructure Program (SHIP) - National Highway System (NHS) |
 | | The National Highway System, in 1988, was comprised of 3,317 km of freeways, 2,733 km of multi-lane arterials, 17,722 km of two-lane paved roads and 587 km of gravel roads, as illustrated in Figure 2.1 below. |
 | | The 250,000-km system was to include the interstate highway system, the strategic highway network, major connectors, congressionally designated high-priority corridors, and other rural and urban principal arterial routes that provide access to major ports, airports, international border crossings, public transportation facilities and intermodal transportation facilities. |
 | | However, these routes were not considered of national significance, according to the criteria, as they did not form a primary interprovincial or international link nor did they directly link, major population or commercial centres. |
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