Truck Lane at U.S.-Canada Border to Close for a Year

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he northbound truck lane of the Pacific Highway’s U.S.-Canada border crossing in Washington state will close for about a year, beginning Oct. 2, the Bellingham Herald newspaper reported Friday.

The closure, part of a project to expand the roadway from three lanes to five, will see car and truck traffic sharing lanes at a border crossing that has the fourth-largest volume of commercial trucks in the nation, the Bellingham Herald said.

Dustin Terpening, a spokesman for the Washington state Department of Transportation, told the Herald that about 360,000 trucks used the crossing last year.