Better Get Those Students Downtown Quickly
Not even Super Bowl could help us with cross-border traffic when numbers were down drastically over that weekend contrary to expectations.
I sure hope those St. Clair College kids are big spenders because downtown will need them if they are our salvation. I can just imagine the line-ups at the Keg as they want lunch or a snack between classes. The bars with their 20 cent chicken wing nights will do very well too I bet.
It's getting ugly now. Tourist numbers are horrible, no-smoking ban coming, IDs being required, rising dollar. Can it get any worse?
Actually it can---we are being asked to spend billions on a new border crossing based on optimistic traffic projections. Oooops I forgot, this is just a "blip" we are going through.
Cross-border car travel at all-time low in February
CTV.ca News Staff
Same-day car travel from the United States to Canada fell to its lowest monthly level on record in February, dropping below the 1.2-million mark for the first time, Statistics Canada reported Thursday.
"In addition, the estimated 1.1 million overnight trips taken by American residents to Canada was the lowest monthly level in almost nine years," the government agency reported on Thursday.
"Overall, only 2.4 million American residents took trips to Canada in February, down 2.3 per cent from the month before and the lowest month on record since May 1979."
Meanwhile, Canadian residents set a new record for trips abroad with 547,000 travelling overseas in February, which represented a 1.5 per cent gain from January, the third consecutive monthly increase.
But it appears Canadians were more reluctant to travel south of the border, as they made fewer than 3.2 million trips to the United States during February, down 7.1 per cent from January.
Similarly, the number of same-day car trips by Canadians fell 8.0 per cent to just under 1.9 million, the lowest level since June last year.
In addition, they made fewer than 1.3 million trips of one night or more, a drop of 5.7 per cent.
The report was released as Canadian authorities express their concerns over Washington's plans to require secure identification requirements for cross-border travellers by 2007.
Politicians and travel industry stakeholders say they fear ID requirements will deter casual cross-border travel and hinder trade between the two allies...
Though Statistics Canada didn't provide analysis for the numbers, it noted that the Canadian dollar was worth 87.0 US cents on average in February, up 0.7 per cent compared to January. The loonie also rose against the euro, British pound sterling and Japanese yen.
I sure hope those St. Clair College kids are big spenders because downtown will need them if they are our salvation. I can just imagine the line-ups at the Keg as they want lunch or a snack between classes. The bars with their 20 cent chicken wing nights will do very well too I bet.
It's getting ugly now. Tourist numbers are horrible, no-smoking ban coming, IDs being required, rising dollar. Can it get any worse?
Actually it can---we are being asked to spend billions on a new border crossing based on optimistic traffic projections. Oooops I forgot, this is just a "blip" we are going through.
Cross-border car travel at all-time low in February
CTV.ca News Staff
Same-day car travel from the United States to Canada fell to its lowest monthly level on record in February, dropping below the 1.2-million mark for the first time, Statistics Canada reported Thursday.
"In addition, the estimated 1.1 million overnight trips taken by American residents to Canada was the lowest monthly level in almost nine years," the government agency reported on Thursday.
"Overall, only 2.4 million American residents took trips to Canada in February, down 2.3 per cent from the month before and the lowest month on record since May 1979."
Meanwhile, Canadian residents set a new record for trips abroad with 547,000 travelling overseas in February, which represented a 1.5 per cent gain from January, the third consecutive monthly increase.
But it appears Canadians were more reluctant to travel south of the border, as they made fewer than 3.2 million trips to the United States during February, down 7.1 per cent from January.
Similarly, the number of same-day car trips by Canadians fell 8.0 per cent to just under 1.9 million, the lowest level since June last year.
In addition, they made fewer than 1.3 million trips of one night or more, a drop of 5.7 per cent.
The report was released as Canadian authorities express their concerns over Washington's plans to require secure identification requirements for cross-border travellers by 2007.
Politicians and travel industry stakeholders say they fear ID requirements will deter casual cross-border travel and hinder trade between the two allies...
Though Statistics Canada didn't provide analysis for the numbers, it noted that the Canadian dollar was worth 87.0 US cents on average in February, up 0.7 per cent compared to January. The loonie also rose against the euro, British pound sterling and Japanese yen.
posted by JoeBlog at 2:40 p.m.
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