I agree with the gist of your comments, but Inuvik and Tuk are both in the NWT, not the Yukon.
Yukon does have a relatively small Beaufort Sea coastline, but no communities there and no obvious port locations. The coastal terrain itself is flat tundra, but any road connection to that area would logically tie into Inuvik and the Mackenzie corridor rather than routing back through Yukon’s interior to connect to the Dempster. So in practice, Yukon’s Arctic coast is more of an NWT infrastructure story than a Yukon one — which arguably explains part of why the funding landed where it did.
The only community in Yukon without all-weather road access is Old Crow. NWT and Nunavut have not had the same level of development historically — this is some catching up.
I shouls have specified with Tuk that I was lumping them into further Yukon investments because they're very interconnected lol. But yes, there is signficant catchup at play and sadly that nagurally means that other places will lose out
I agree with the gist of your comments, but Inuvik and Tuk are both in the NWT, not the Yukon.
Yukon does have a relatively small Beaufort Sea coastline, but no communities there and no obvious port locations. The coastal terrain itself is flat tundra, but any road connection to that area would logically tie into Inuvik and the Mackenzie corridor rather than routing back through Yukon’s interior to connect to the Dempster. So in practice, Yukon’s Arctic coast is more of an NWT infrastructure story than a Yukon one — which arguably explains part of why the funding landed where it did.
The only community in Yukon without all-weather road access is Old Crow. NWT and Nunavut have not had the same level of development historically — this is some catching up.
I shouls have specified with Tuk that I was lumping them into further Yukon investments because they're very interconnected lol. But yes, there is signficant catchup at play and sadly that nagurally means that other places will lose out