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The Pacific Highway Border Crossing connects the city of Blaine, Washington and the city of Surrey, British Columbia on the Canada–US border. Interstate 5/Washington State Route 543 on the American side joins British Columbia Highway 15 on the Canadian side. Since the 1970s, commercial vehicles driving directly between Blaine and Surrey have ...
Wait times for vehicles at popular border crossings can sometimes be excessive on either side of the border. It is recommended that the estimated wait time be checked in advance of travel. These are provided by both the CBSA [33] and the CBP. [34] Both the U.S. and Canadian governments urge frequent travelers to join the NEXUS trusted traveler ...
When you’re a city located just 20 miles from southern Canada like Bellingham is, getting to the border is easy. Crossing can be a little more complicated.
For a program designed to decrease wait times at the border, NEXUS is notorious for long waits of its own. The Department of Homeland Security currently estimates that it takes 12-14 months for ...
This crossing, known as "Starkey Corners" opened in 1936, and was permanently closed on May 19, 1962. The General Services Administration purchased the US border station property on May 20, 1932, and sold it (building included) on January 26, 1966. [53] The US border station is now a private home. The Canadian station was demolished in the late ...
Commercial trucks are waiting up to two hours to cross from Ciudad Juarez into El Paso, due to exhaustive inspections from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Andrés Morales Arreola, director of ...
Between the two border stations sits the Peace Arch Park, where visitors are free to cross the border within the confines of the park. The Peace Arch was erected in 1921 when a hotel and residences occupied much of the later park area. [2] In 2010, the only time the Olympic torch left Canada was in crossing the border into the US side of the ...
[3] [9] The border crossing is open from 8 a.m. to midnight and is the fourth-busiest border crossing in the state, with 509,467 vehicles entering the United States in 2017. [10] [11] Beyond the border, the road becomes British Columbia Highway 13, which continues north to Aldergrove and an interchange with the Trans-Canada Highway east of ...