The Bennett Government's Pacific Northern Railway Project and the Development of British Columbia's "Hinterland" ...
The "Pacific Northern Railway" (PNR) project, a proposed interregional rail link between BC, the Yukon and Alaska, which was initiated by the Social Credit government under Premier W.A.C. Bennett in the late 1950's, was one of the most ambitious provincial transportation megaprojects...
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ftdatacite:10.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516 2023-08-27T04:12:33+02:00 The Bennett Government's Pacific Northern Railway Project and the Development of British Columbia's "Hinterland" ... Taylor, Lawrence Douglas 2012 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516 https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/2516 en eng BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i175 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g183693 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g187363 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g187368 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g187369 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g187394 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g187395 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g187396 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g187397 Text article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2012 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i175.251610.14288/bcs.v0i17510.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g18369310.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g18736310.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g18736810.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g18736910.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g18739410.14288/bcs.v0i175.2516.g18739510.1 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z The "Pacific Northern Railway" (PNR) project, a proposed interregional rail link between BC, the Yukon and Alaska, which was initiated by the Social Credit government under Premier W.A.C. Bennett in the late 1950's, was one of the most ambitious provincial transportation megaprojects of the twentieth century. Although the project never really entered the construction phase, its failure merits study for what it reveals concerning the dangerous gaps that may arise in government policy between vision and agenda-setting, on the one hand, and, on the other. questions of feasibility and suitability in terms of goals which ought to be pursued rather than those that are largely politically motivated. The rail project failed primarily owing to the gap that existed between the metropolitan-hinterland philosophy of railway building that the Bennett government insisted on pursuing, despite the fact that it was no longer in tune with the times. Its failure was also due to inadequate study and consideration of the ... : BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No 175: Autumn 2012 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Alaska Yukon DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Yukon Pacific |
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The "Pacific Northern Railway" (PNR) project, a proposed interregional rail link between BC, the Yukon and Alaska, which was initiated by the Social Credit government under Premier W.A.C. Bennett in the late 1950's, was one of the most ambitious provincial transportation megaprojects of the twentieth century. Although the project never really entered the construction phase, its failure merits study for what it reveals concerning the dangerous gaps that may arise in government policy between vision and agenda-setting, on the one hand, and, on the other. questions of feasibility and suitability in terms of goals which ought to be pursued rather than those that are largely politically motivated. The rail project failed primarily owing to the gap that existed between the metropolitan-hinterland philosophy of railway building that the Bennett government insisted on pursuing, despite the fact that it was no longer in tune with the times. Its failure was also due to inadequate study and consideration of the ... : BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No 175: Autumn 2012 ... |
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