Four exits from the I-190 to the Peace Bridge and the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge remained closed Wednesday afternoon due to processing delays for commercial vehicles on the Canadian side, the Niagara International Transportation Technology Coalition reported.
Closed are the northbound ramp at Exit 24, Witmer Road in Lewiston; the north and south ramps to Exit 8, Niagara Street in Buffalo; and the north ramp to Exit 9, Peace Bridge in Buffalo. Motorists were advised to seek alternate routes.
NITTEC reported no delays for passenger vehicles at any of the area’s international bridges late Wednesday afternoon. Traffic cameras at the Peace Bridge showed a line of slow-moving tractor-trailers.
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The delays are due to a Canadian Border Services Agency computer system failure for cargo systems, Thomas Boyle, CEO of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority, said Tuesday. A spokesman for the Canadian agency said Wednesday that the problem has been resolved.
Despite reports that commercial traffic was banned at the bridges, a spokesman on the Canadian side of the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge said Tuesday that was never the case.
He explained that the slowdown was caused by the need to process paperwork by hand. That caused long backups of trucks Tuesday at the I-190 exits to both bridges.
– Dale Anderson
Email danderson@buffnews.com.
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