Not sure what you mean about Alberta, Norway, and world class infrastructure, CFL Junkie, and I know this will label me an idiot in your interesting lexicon. 

I am guessing that infrastructure in Norway is world class and it must be terribly expensive to build. To highways, trains, and airports, add ferries and related docking facilities, etc. And, in world class Alberta you cannot travel by scheduled passenger rail outside the two main cities and Via Rail's low frequency service that serves Edmonton and some smaller centres.

Given that you would evidently classify me an idiot, would you call them intellectuals who reject passenger rail traffic between, say, Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton and Ft McMurray or Grand Prairie, because "Albertans won't go anywhere without their cars?"

Given that we are world class, we could spend more on choices that are a little more creative than right hand lane or centre or left.