Upon moving to Canada from Minnesota, a traffic engineer at work described the difficulty he had adjusting to the "Canadian" highways."What do you mean?", I asked, " surely the highways here can't be that different."
He went on to explain that during there first week here, his wife was called in for an interview in Surrey. He mapped out the route they would need to take get to the interview location but ran into a lot of trouble. On the map it showed Highway 99A as the most direct route and being an American, he thought that a highway would be the fasted way to go. However, he soon discovered that highways in Canada are not the same as they are in the States.
Highway 99A is actually called King George Highway which is more of a major road than a highway as there is a traffic light every few blocks and is usually highly congested. His wife was late for the interview thanks to this misunderstanding in reading the map.
Highways in Canada are not the massive transportation passages they are in the States. Here we are a little more loose with our "highway" labelling but we do have the best scenery!
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