The project provides numerous
benefits to people of the region, including:
- A second crossing in a region that is in desperate
need of more choices
- Shorter duration border crossings
- Elimination of the truck backups on the QEW, the
I-190 and local streets around Front Park in Buffalo and Mather Park in
Fort Erie
- No residential relocations
- Private sector funding
- High quality jobs to support the construction, maintenance and operation of the
new facility
- Strategic location to capture additional economic
benefits and jobs through intermodal trade opportunities
- Relocation of trucks to an industrial rail corridor
that is a more appropriate route for international trade
- Reuse of existing brownfields
- The addition of hundreds of acres of property to the
tax rolls
- Repositions the Peace Bridge as the gateway and
“front door” between Canada and the United States rather than the “loading
dock”
- Provides redundancy to the existing infrastructure
- Helps to insure the free flow of trade between Canada
and the United States
- Can be a catalyst to the implementation of numerous
interrelated projects
- Can be the economic engine that helps the revitalization of the region's economy
