The following article is excerpted from the 6 April 2011 edition of “montrealgazette.com”.

Efforts to ease congestion at one of the busiest Canada-U.S. border crossings are being hampered by "woefully insufficient" American customs infrastructure and ill-considered budget cuts, a congressional panel heard Tuesday.

The problems at the Blue Water Bridge crossing, which links Sarnia, Ont., to Port Huron, Mich., are so acute that U.S. agents must conduct secondary inspections of commercial vehicles at off-site locations because the existing customs plaza lacks enough space to accommodate on-site searches...

This article is available in its entirety on The Gazette website at:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Crossing+choking+commerce/4565477/story.html

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