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CROSSING TROUBLES * USA - Wait at Canadian border going from bad to brutal
Work on new facility, I-5 will slow traffic in both directions
Seattle,WASH,USA -The Seattle Post Intelligencer ,by KRISTEN MILLARES BOLT -September 4, 2007: -- Think you're waiting too long to cross the U.S.-Canadian border now? It's about to get worse for a long time -- thanks to a pre-Olympics overhaul... Construction on the Customs and Border Protection facility at the Peace Arch crossing in Blaine promises to tangle traffic at the border for at least two years by reducing the inspection lanes for travelers entering the U.S. from seven to four... Crossing the border on a weekend or holiday can take two hours at peak times. And increased inspections in the past couple of months already have led to border lines as long as they were after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks... Even worse snarls come first: Beginning this month or early October, the number of customs lanes for thousands of travelers entering the U.S. at the Peace Arch will drop to two for 30 to 60 days... (Photo: AP/FILE - BORDER SECURITY: Vehicles line up to enter the US at the Peace Arch crossing in Blaine, Wash. By 2008, all Americans will need passports to reenter from Canada. [ Editor's note: The original caption misnamed the Peace Arch)
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