Except for the summer months, auto traffic generally moves at a brisk pace. The Public Bridge Authority is trying to boost auto traffic they ve even taken to posting advertisements for Canadian gambling joints at the tollbooths but thus far the general trend of auto traffic is downwards. The only continuing traffic problem at the Peace Bridge is the trucks getting through U.S. Customs. And it s only the trucks that the officials anxious to expand bridge capacity really worry about.
Trucks are where the big money is.
Trotter suggested that the norther border states do some of the concerted lobbying the southern border states have done so well, but it s unlikely that Congressional lobbying alone will transcend the current national hysteria over illicit drugs. Expansion of Customs staff at this border would help our problems enormously, but unless the current gaggle of presidential candidates decide it a vote-getting issue, it s probably not going to happen in the near future. A much larger truck processing facility would help the congestion problem. The Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority, the agency that administers the Peace Bridge, has long been aware that the plaza is the real bottleneck in the system. Even so, the PBA and its staff have thus far avoided any specific plaza planning and deliberately separated its bridge and plaza construction projects.