Check mate!

UPDATE: for some reason, the distance from Saskatoon to Yorkton is 50 km shorter on google maps than on the yellowhead highway website. that is some bulllllllshit. I don't know who's right.

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Upon yesterday's pointless discussion, Ryan estimated the distance along the Yellowhead highway as being a shorter route to Winnipeg than going through Regina. Now, I'm no arithmetician, in fact, I'm not even a medical doctor, but here is what my web-research has shown:

Yellowhead (source):


Saskatoon to Winnipeg (Through Regina - source)


So, if you do the calculus, Ryan was right in his assertion that the Yellowhead was a shorter route, by a whopping 2 km. But if you take into consideration that you get to go 110km for the Regina drive on double highway and that the Trans-Canada is close to being totally twinned, then clearly, you should never go to Winnipeg. Dirty, dirty, Winnipeg. (Sorry Blair, its true).