RockyRaccoon
Explorer
Reged: 01/29/05
Posts: 101
Loc: Ithaca, NY
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Hi all,
This attachment contains 126 highway border crossings and 34 railway border crossings between the USA and Canada and the USA and Mexico. It contains the entire data on Border Crossings available from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Oddly enough, there are at least two border crossings missing that I know of -- one in Niagara Falls and another in Detroit. This probably indicates that more are missing elsewhere that I don't know about. I wonder what their criteria was for selecting this data and not some others. At any rate, it seems that the majority of crossings are contained here. Please feel free to update the file with additional crossings that you may know about as I will also do as I come across them.
Links to real-time delay information and yearly entry data are included in the description section.
Take care,
-Rocky
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Jumble
Master Guide
Reged: 04/20/03
Posts: 4284
Loc: Philadelphia, PA
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Rocky: Great stuff, as usual. These placemarks, ala The Boobster in the traffic jam thread, will inspire many more interesting sights.
Maybe the US Border patrol needs to license a bunch of Keyhole products for our protection!!
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AlJones
First Post
Reged: 07/25/05
Posts: 1
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Hey Rocky, since I'm from the area I thought I might comment about the location of Alexandria Bay, NY.
You have it at 44.20.85N 75.59.01W It's actually closer to 44.20.09N 75.54.50W.
Not that it matters much to anyone from out of the are, but I went to school there and lived about 10 miles away so putting the village on Welsey Island is a bit off ... <  > //al
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PhilipsProsys
Tourist
Reged: 08/12/05
Posts: 4
Loc: Québec, Canada
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The name of the Placemark (Lowelltown) should be replace by Boundary or something else because Lowelltown is around 3 miles ( by air) South East-from there.
Edited by GHoule (08/31/05 05:38 AM)
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marufomojo
Tourist
Reged: 09/14/05
Posts: 2
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Visitors should be aware that there are several places in the Big Bend area that have served as "unofficial" river crossings for years. Many visitors enjoyed being rowed across to the small border towns of Boquillas, Santa Elena, or Paso Lajitas for a burro ride and some tacos and Mexican beer, but since 9/11, the Border Patrol has stopped these crossings. It has been devastating for these local communities that now have to travel miles of dirt road into Mexico for basic necessities and have lost what small tourism income they had. 
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RabidMonkey2
Tourist
Reged: 08/14/05
Posts: 38
Loc: Lasalle, Essex County, Ontario...
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thats good stuff, but youre forgetting the speculated inter-continental peace bridge between alaska and russia across the beiring strait, which isnt built yet, but is being talked about.
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jxoco
First Post
Reged: 09/27/05
Posts: 1
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There is a border crossing that goes nowhere.
The north end of Ross Lake is in Canada, just a few hundred feet of it.
The only road in approaches from the north and comes to a border crossing, a little hut. Beyond that there is a Campground with a ranger station. Quite a nice Campground actually. And the road stops there. Ross lake is now a reservoir and when my wife and I paddled a bit of it, we say that the road just goes into the water.
The Rangers that work there have about a hundred mile drive through Canada to get there.
48 59'52.34 N 121 03'52.97 W
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burkons
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Reged: 10/17/05
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could be that one of the det crossings is the tunnel.
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Arbuz
Tourist
Reged: 08/19/05
Posts: 166
Loc: Puerto Rico
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Otay Mesa place mark i should read San Ysidro
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RabidMonkey2
Tourist
Reged: 08/14/05
Posts: 38
Loc: Lasalle, Essex County, Ontario...
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yeah, you forgot to add the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel...
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