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Table RO6: Twenty Busiest Border Crossings for Cars/Other Vehicles, 2019–2023
| 2023 Rank | Two-Way Traffic Volume (millions of movements) | Share (%) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Border Crossing | Province | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||
| 1 | Pacific Highway/Douglas | B.C. | 8.06 | 1.60 | 0.86 | 4.11 | 6.10 | 15.1 | 12.4 | 10.0 | 14.7 | 14.9 | |
| 2 | Detroit - Windsor Tunnel1 | Ont. | 4.00 | 1.21 | 0.87 | 2.64 | 3.42 | 7.5 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 9.4 | 8.4 | |
| 3 | Windsor-Ambassador Bridge1 | Ont. | 4.21 | 1.65 | 1.52 | 2.24 | 3.32 | 7.9 | 12.8 | 17.6 | 8.0 | 8.1 | |
| 4 | Fort Erie - Peace Bridge | Ont. | 4.09 | 0.91 | 0.69 | 2.26 | 3.50 | 7.7 | 7.1 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.6 | |
| 5 | Niagara Falls - Queenston Bridge | Ont. | 2.85 | 0.54 | 0.32 | 1.49 | 2.20 | 5.4 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 5.3 | 5.4 | |
| 6 | Sarnia - Blue Water Bridge | Ont. | 3.03 | 0.59 | 0.35 | 1.46 | 2.05 | 5.7 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 5.2 | 5.0 | |
| 7 | Niagara Falls - Rainbow Bridge | Ont. | 2.31 | 0.38 | 0.24 | 1.12 | 1.78 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 4.0 | 4.3 | |
| 8 | Lacolle2 | Qué. | 1.85 | 0.38 | 0.27 | 1.22 | 1.65 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 4.3 | 4.0 | |
| 9 | Cornwall | Ont. | 1.69 | 1.04 | 1.04 | 1.32 | 1.55 | 3.2 | 8.1 | 12.1 | 4.7 | 3.8 | |
| 10 | Boundary Bay | B.C. | 1.95 | 0.43 | 0.21 | 1.06 | 1.41 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 3.5 | |
| 11 | Huntingdon | B.C. | 1.79 | 0.37 | 0.12 | 0.68 | 1.08 | 3.4 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 2.6 | |
| 12 | Lansdowne | Ont. | 1.19 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.72 | 1.02 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 2.5 | |
| 13 | St. Stephen | N.B. | 1.34 | 0.29 | 0.14 | 0.61 | 1.00 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 2.4 | |
| 14 | Sault Ste. Marie | Ont. | 1.35 | 0.30 | 0.13 | 0.57 | 0.92 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.2 | |
| 15 | Phillipsburg | Qué. | 0.90 | 0.17 | 0.16 | 0.58 | 0.81 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.0 | |
| 16 | Aldergrove | B.C. | 1.09 | 0.21 | 0.09 | 0.50 | 0.78 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 1.9 | |
| 17 | Stanstead3 | Qué. | 0.79 | 0.15 | 0.09 | 0.43 | 0.62 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | |
| 18 | Fort Frances | Ont. | 0.80 | 0.16 | 0.07 | 0.33 | 0.53 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1.3 | |
| 19 | Edmundston | N.B. | 0.73 | 0.18 | 0.05 | 0.27 | 0.49 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.2 | |
| 20 | Emerson | Man. | 0.52 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.29 | 0.44 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.1 | |
| Top 20 Crossings | 44.54 | 10.90 | 7.45 | 23.90 | 34.68 | 83.7 | 84.7 | 86.4 | 85.4 | 84.8 | |||
| All other crossings | 8.66 | 1.97 | 1.17 | 4.10 | 6.23 | 16.3 | 15.3 | 13.6 | 14.6 | 15.2 | |||
| Total All Border Crossings | 53.21 | 12.88 | 8.61 | 28.00 | 40.91 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||
Notes and Sources
Notes: Two-way traffic volumes were estimated by doubling one-way flows northbound into Canada. R = revised data.
1 The data for the Windsor-Ambassador Bridge and Detroit-Windsor Tunnel presented here comes from a Transport Canada calculation and is not found directly in the source data. The sum of vehicle movements through all other Ontario border crossings is deducted from the Ontario total found in the source data. The proportions match those found in publically-available data from the Bridge & Tunnel Operators Association (BTOA).
2 Lacolle includes routes 15, 221 and 223.
3 Stanstead includes routes 55 and 143.
Source: Transport Canada, adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 24-10-0052-01
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Notes: Two-way traffic volumes were estimated by doubling one-way flows northbound into Canada. R = revised data.
1 The data for the Windsor-Ambassador Bridge and Detroit-Windsor Tunnel presented here comes from a Transport Canada calculation and is not found directly in the source data. The sum of vehicle movements through all other Ontario border crossings is deducted from the Ontario total found in the source data. The proportions match those found in publically-available data from the Bridge & Tunnel Operators Association (BTOA).
2 Lacolle includes routes 15, 221 and 223.
3 Stanstead includes routes 55 and 143.
Source: Transport Canada, adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 24-10-0052-01
1 The data for the Windsor-Ambassador Bridge and Detroit-Windsor Tunnel presented here comes from a Transport Canada calculation and is not found directly in the source data. The sum of vehicle movements through all other Ontario border crossings is deducted from the Ontario total found in the source data. The proportions match those found in publically-available data from the Bridge & Tunnel Operators Association (BTOA).
2 Lacolle includes routes 15, 221 and 223.
3 Stanstead includes routes 55 and 143.
Source: Transport Canada, adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 24-10-0052-01