Canada plans to close border crossing north of Whitetail ( MT )

ap ^ | August 3, 2010

[george76]

GREAT FALLS — Citing the need to ensure value for its taxpayers' money, Canada plans to close its side of a Saskatchewan-Montana border crossing that sees just five travelers per day — even as the U.S. side is undergoing an $8.5 million stimulus-funded upgrade.

Canada's decision to close the Big Beaver Port of Entry on April 1 underscores the criticism leveled against the U.S. government spending more than $23 million in Recovery Act funding to upgrade that and four other Montana border posts.

[Frantzie]

Canada is looking better every day.

[mcshot]

If it weren’t for the gun issue I’d be there.

[Loyal Buckeye]

The border crossing to nowhere.

[Clint Williams]

to close the Big Beaver Port of Entry

What a shame. / s

[dfwgator]

"The Always Enjoyable Giant Inflatable Beaver"

[az_gila]

A good use of stimulus money... /S

The $8.5 million works out to $472 per border crosser over the next ten years... and that’s just for the building upgrade.

Some things should be shut down, and the Canadians had it right... but which idiot came up with spending $8.5M on the US side?

[colorado tanker]

The soon to be border crossing to nowhere. How could you spend $23 million on this??

Rush hour in Whitetail:

[Gay State Conservative]

Last fall I crossed the border into Canada at the North Dakota/Manitoba border at the end of I-29.I was there at about 10AM on a weekday morning and apart from mine the only other vehicle I saw was a pickup with Alaska plates.

Talk about deserted!

[george76]

Amazing.

Rush hour in Whitetail

[colorado tanker]

:-))

[jazusamo]

It so reassuring to know that $8.5 million in stimulus funds are going to this project in Nowhere, USA. Just think how many jobs it must have created. /sarc

[colorado tanker]

The bridge to nowhere would have been a better investment than this. IIRC, they had some plans about development on that island.

[jazusamo]

LOL! I totally agree.

[george76]

That Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska would connect the town of Ketchikan with its airport on a near by Island .

The bridge would get more use by more people than this border post only getting 5 people per day. Plus the border post will be staffed ( wages, benefits, pensions...)

Waiting for the enemedia to show up

[GOP Poet]

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[george76]

Might be a good job ?

Canadian side closed, so lots of free time waiting to deny passage to a lost tourist.

[BigBobber]

The border crossing to nowhere.

Bingo!

[okie01]

$8-and-a-half-million for a P-O-E that sees five people a day? Five!!!

How could Tester and Baucus be so stupid with our money?

Because, to them, it's only "Monopoly money".

This particular project illustrates so much about what is so dreadfully wrong with the U.S. government today.

Whitetail actually makes the "Bridge To Nowhere" look justified.

Tester and Baucus should apologize to their Montana constituents...and the rest of us.

Jeez!

[paul51]

it may not have created a lot of jobs but I’m sure it saved a lot of them