http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/07/bottleneck_at_the_border_aging.html

Bottlenecks at the border are taking a toll on U.S.-Canada trade

 

Posted by Frank Bentayou July 20, 2008 00:06AM

 

Don McArthur/Associated Press fileScarcely adequate bridges and worn roads already stressed growing cross-border truck traffic between Canada and the United States before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In the days afterward, when this scene unfolded, backups extended for miles. Now, delays are less severe, but manufacturers and shippers fear slowdowns in June 2009, when the next wave of Homeland Security rules are scheduled to go into effect, possibly stifling trade between the neighboring countries.

 

When Henry King drove back to Cleveland from Canada recently, he spied the jumble of semis queued up at checkpoints at the border. With each trip he makes, the international law expert at Case Western Reserve University said, the backup seems longer.

 

"It's costing us," he said about the old, overburdened bridges and the post-9/11 border security measures. All that puts a crimp in U.S.-Canada commerce.

 

 

SOURCE: Canadian Consulate, Detroit; Migration Policy Institute; Buffalo-Niagara Partnership; U.S. Department of Treasury

Time to bring those ferries back!

Haven't they heard of freight trains?

Why don't they go through Port Huron?

Ok, I'll say it just because the little exurb dweller voice in my head says it:

 

When are we building that bridge from Cleveland to Canada again? :)

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Especially with the price of gas, why aren't there more cargo barges going across the lake?

 

 

Especially with the price of gas, why aren't there more cargo barges going across the lake?

 

Well the Port Stanley to Cleveland idea has been floating around for quite a while now. Still no traction last I checked. (Port Stanley is due south of London, ON on the map above)

 

Port Stanley Ferry Thread

Why don't they go through Port Huron?

 

Or Niagara Falls?