{"id":396895,"date":"2026-01-08T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396895\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:11:08","slug":"bridge-traffic-continues-sharp-decline-despite-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396895\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge traffic continues sharp decline despite holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overall for 2025, there were 845,713 one-way crossings, which is a 23.8-per-cent decrease from 2024<\/p>\n<p>Even Christmas travel couldn\u2019t boost the number of vehicles travelling across the International Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release from the International Bridge Administration, there were 57,308 one-way traffic crossings in the month of December.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s down 27 per cent from the last month of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Overall for 2025, there were 845,713 one-way crossings, which is a 23.8 per cent decrease from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sootoday.com\/local-news\/international-bridge-crossings-top-11-million-in-2024-10040425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1,109,831 crossings in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The full stats for December are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFull-Fare Passenger Cars: 21,292 crossings (33.7-per-cent decrease)&#13;<br \/>\n\tCommuter Fare: 31,377 crossings (23.8-per-cent decrease)&#13;<br \/>\n\tCar Pulling Trailers: 413 crossings (25-per-cent decrease)&#13;<br \/>\n\tCommercial Trucks: 4,226 crossings (9.3-per-cent decrease)&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The bridge has processed 106.8-million bridge crossings since 1962.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overall for 2025, there were 845,713 one-way crossings, which is a 23.8-per-cent decrease from 2024 Even Christmas travel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,167743,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-396895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-international-bridgeinternational-bridge-administration","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}