We in Western NY have been watching this Mongolian Cluster F$#k for decades.
As the area is controlled by communist democrats, nothing gets done but they spend a ton of money on studies. Does not matter if it is a bridge, shopping center, data center, manufacturing business, they will study it to death and most businesses just give up.
They futzed around for years on building a new bridge but every study found a problem with the last one being some dingbat birds might hit the cables and kill themselves. Culling out the herd is not really a bad thing.
We do not need a new bridge but a method to get the cars and trucks through the gestapo of inspectors in a more efficient manner. The bridge could easily handle traffic on the busiest of days if the inspections were up to the task.
Meanwhile the Canadians expanded their inspection area, although typical of government, not by enough. Government is quite happy making peons wait for them.
Wurly my boy, I live in West Seneca, NY and second your motion! It is a Cluster *&%$! We have Higgins(D), Schumer(D) and Gillebrand(D). What could possibly go wrong?
You’re right about “The bridge could easily handle traffic on the busiest of days if the inspections were up to the task.”
My wife and 2 of her friends spent 2 hours in customs last week coming across the Peace Bridge. All 3 have been US citizens for at least 40 years or more. One of the clone they have for inspectors had a hard time believing that Hawaii was a state (wife’s girlfriend was born in Hawaii to Japanese parents), so they all got fingerprinted.
We live in the Town of Tanawanda.
Thank you! I've been preaching that for well over a decade. Every time Sandy Beech does another show bemoaning the fact we still don't have another bridge, I want to scream.
In New York, though, something new -- anything new -- is looked upon as a substitute for progress. And, of course, they destroyed one of the last viable neighborhoods on the West Side screwing around for 20 years.