From the Niagara Falls Review:
The number of passenger vehicles crossing Niagara-area bridges is falling.
Year-to-date figures for the Rainbow Bridge show a 7.75-per cent decline in passenger traffic, compared to the same period in 2006. At the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge, passenger crossings are down 4.77 per cent compared to the figures from the first half of last year.
Statistics for the month of June were closer to those for the same month the previous year.
The Rainbow Bridge was down 0.62 per cent from the volume of passenger vehicles recorded in June 2006, while the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge saw a drop of 0.
76 this June compared to the same month a year ago.“It has been a steady decline,” said Brent Gallaugher, manager of agency relations and security for the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission. “The Americans seem reluctant to travel,” he said.