Just five days after the Gordie Howe International Bridge opened on July 27, connecting Windsor, Ont. and Detroit, Mich., 18,900 Canadian residents had crossed by car, according to Statistics Canada’s July travel numbers released on Tuesday.
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The new bridge adds to Windsor’s existing two border crossings, the Ambassador Bridge and the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel, which, together, are Canada’s busiest land crossings.
Another 18,100 U.S. residents used the Gordie Howe Bridge to cross to Canada by car between the opening and July 31. During that same period, 31,500 Canadians and 21,200 U.S. residents used the other Windsor crossings.
A total of 4,100 commercial transport trucks entered or returned to Canada via the Gordie Howe bridge in the last days of July.
Trips into Canada were up 6.3 per cent in July, boosted by three FIFA World Cup matches held in Canadian host cities Vancouver and Toronto during the month.
Statistics Canada said 863,600 overseas residents arrived in the country, many to support their home teams from Colombia, Switzerland, Portugal and Croatia.
Total air arrivals from those countries were up 18.7 per cent or 6,700 in July compared with a year ago.
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