Hints of Comeback for Nation's First Superhighway (New York, Little Falls: oil, interior)

[juppiter]

November 3, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/ny...nt&oref=slogin

Hints of Comeback for Nation’s First Superhighway

By CHRISTOPHER MAAG
LITTLE FALLS, N.Y. — Most people do not believe that Tim Dufel can push 2,000 tons of steel all the way across New York State. Isn’t the old Erie Canal dried up, they ask him, its locks broken, its ditch filled in and forgotten?

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[juppiter]

This was a great article... and this is why I don't think the Sunbelt trend can or will continue. In New York, you don't need air conditioning 24 hours a day, 12 months a year (in fact, while it's nice to have in the summer, you never really *need* it.) New York has a superior infrastructure to any Sunbelt state (possibly any state period.)

Gas and oil are down right now, but the trend is upward. When diesel is 5 dollars a gallon, the Erie Canal will be hopping IMO.

[just_sayin']

well we always knew the sunbelt trend wouldn't last forever. Things go in cycles around here. The northeast was the hotbed for growth and progress in America first, then the midwest, then the west coast, then the south/interior west....and the cycle will eventually come back this way.