Land border closed to Canada
We open our land border to the U.S. to "non-essential" visitors so they can look after their owned property here in Canada but we can't do the same for our owned property we own in the U.S.,, sure we ...
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moisheh wrote:
I really doubt it has anything to do with handling the tourists at the border. I drive long haul in the summer and our crossings are always slower than a tourist..
Logic does not apply!!
Border crossing stats are published and easily accessible.
To just randomly pick one crossing, Queenston / Lewiston in the Niagara Falls / Buffalo area, and pre-Covid tourist season, of August 2019.
There were 178,669 US bound vehicle crossings, of that number, 34,864, or less than 20% of those vehicles were commercial trucks.
So for every truck that crosses, there are more than 5 passenger vehicles.
Statistics also show that the average time for a passenger vehicle is under 30 seconds, if passenger vehicles were slowed to even only 2 minutes average clearing time it would effectively quadruple that 80% of the traffic.
I’ve been in traffic jams of 4+ hours because an accident blocked one of two lanes leading to the border crossing.
Anything short of an almost complete to ‘normal’ would create such chaos that even essential traffic would be paralyzed.
