Infrastructure
Major renovations slated for two bridges at US-Canada border
LEWISTON, N.Y. -- Major renovations to the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge and the Peace Bridge have been announced as part of the new cross-border management agreement between Canada and the US. The renovations are part of a new border security plan...
Truck parking at Confederation Bridge is adequate, industry says
BORDEN-CARLETON, P.E.I. -Is Confederation Bridge parking for trucks a major problem or a tempest on a turnpike? If you imbibe the CBC, you might think it's the former. How big the problem really is, however, depends on who you talk to in the...
“By 2020, it will be crazy. Don’t expect to get anywhere near a city,” expert warns
REXDALE, Ont. -- North American shippers have enjoyed a 30-year run of declining logistics costs but that is about to change, according to George Stalk, senior advisor with Boston Consulting Group, and lingering unwillingness to deal with a...
OTA rejects TV ads labelling proposed Windsor-Detroit bridge ‘road to nowhere’
TORONTO, Ont. -- Ontario Trucking Association president David Bradley has criticized recent television advertisements which attack Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty over monies allocated to building a freeway link to the proposed new,...
Manitoba to explore future all-weather roads to northern remote communities
WINNIPEG, Man. -- The province of Manitoba is launching an engineering study to look at potential routes for future all-weather roads to remote communities in northern Manitoba, according to an announcement from Infrastructure and...
New ExpressPass unveiled for trucks crossing Lewiston-Queenston bridge
LEWISTON, N.Y. -- The Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, operator of three of the four Niagara River bridges between Western New York and Southern Ontario, has unveiled its new ExpressPass for trucks crossing the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge to help...