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The Peace Bridge Chronicles

All articles are by Bruce Jackson, unless otherwise indicated. All articles from #57 on were published in Buffalo Report.
Peace Bridge Chronicles 1-64 have been published in book form. Click here for further information. For an interesting view on all of this, see Anna Hausmann's and Elizabeth Licata's "What's Going on With the Peace Bridge? Plenty," which originally appeared in Buffalo Spree December 2003.

Ron Reinas: "It's Not About Trucks" (part 1) (Artvoice, 17 January 2008, #91)

Trucking Buffalo (Artvoice, 18 October 2007, #90)

It's time for intelligent design at the Peace Bridge (Buffalo Report, 8 October 2005, #89)

The Peace Bridge is right on schedule (Buffalo Report, 8 May 2005, #88)

It's a happy New Year at Peace Bridge Plaza (Buffalo Report, 27 December 2004, Peace Bridge Chronicles #87)

Major advance in Peace Bridge development project with new U.S.-Canada border inspection agreement (Buffalo Report 18 December 2004, #86)

Slash, burn and starting over at the Peace Bridge. It's about time. (Buffalo Report, 28 November 2004, #85)

The fallacy crippling the Peace Bridge expansion project: "Old" does not equal "Historically Significant" (Buffalo Report 14 May 2004, #84)

New Millennium Group calls for signature replacement bridge. (30 April 2004)

Killer entropy, or Triumph of the Will at the Peace Bridge. (Buffalo Report, 8 April 2004, #83)

Parsons 1, Cannon 0. (Buffalo Report, 4 April 2004, #82)

The Peace Bridge Now: Approaching Endgame (Buffalo Report 22 March 2004, #81)

Hevesi and Spitzer call for major reform of public authorities. New York State has a fourth branch of government almost nobody sees: authorities, which are run by appointed boards with virtually no public accountability (the Thruway is run by an authority and so is the Peace Bridge). NY Controller Alan Hevesi and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer want to let the daylight in.

Christopher Hume: Toronto Firm's Work Borders on a Statement (Toronto Star). The Canadians have decided that their side of the Peace Bridge should be neither paranoid nor grim. How unAmerican. (9 February 2004)

Ratification of the Scoping Document/Alternative Screening Report 5 February 2004. The Town of Fort Erie, the City of Buffalo, and the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority (the "Partnering Group") have accepted the terms of the draft environmental study for the Peace Bridge expansion projetct—the Scoping Document/Alternative Screening Report (29 October 2003)—with the added condition contained in Addendum #1 (26 January 2004) that the full EIS consider shared border management as much as possible. These PDF files contains the texts in question and the signed ratifying documents. (8 February 2004)

Halt high-speed cross-border chases, MPs urge Ottowa (Globe and Mail). Last week's Niagara Falls (NY) cowboy cops chase that resulted in the death of a Niagara Falls (Ontario) woman wasn't the only recent incident in which armed US cops went into Canada illegally, and the Canadians don't like it one bit.

Michigan races NY to build Canada span: Buffalo plan targets limited fed money; jobs are at risk. (Detroit News). A lot of people think Detroit transportation mogul Manuel Moroun's Ambassador Bridge Company never intended to build anything here in Buffalo, that all they were doing with that noise about a bridge at the International Railroad Bridge crossing was trying to slow things here so they could increase their foothold in Detroit. This article suggests what Moroun may have hoped to gain with his small Buffalo investment.

Niagara Falls cowboy cops endanger critical Peace Bridge negotiations. They followed a suspect right across the Rainbow Bridge in a high speed chase, just like in the movies. One problem: it was totally illegal and the Canadians didn't like it one bit.

Homeland Security to Senator Charles Schumer: Screw Buffalo (Buffalo Report 1 March 2004)

A Report by the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Regarding a Potential Shared U.S.-Canadian Border Inspection Facility At Fort Erie, Ontario

Michigan races NY to build Canada span: Buffalo plan targets limited fed money; jobs are at risk. (Detroit News).

Anna Hausmann and Elizabeth Licata. What's Going on at the Peace Bridge? Plenty (Buffalo Spree.November 2003)

Christina Abt: Paul Koessler on the State of the Peace Bridge (Buffalo Spree. November 2003)

Peace Bridge Expansion Project 29 October 2003 Draft Scoping Document.

Mitskovski's Question (11 December 2003, #79)

Buffalo Report Interview: Paul Koessler on the Peace Bridge Expansion Project: "It's not going to be a twin" (4 December 2003, #78)

Sam Hoyt and other politicians stage D'Youville media event kissy-kiss and June move into is finally allowed to catch up with November (2 November 2003, #77)

Bruce L. Campbell: Shared Border Management (Buffalo Report, 28 October 2003)

Fort Erie's Leisureplex & Courthouse, the mysterious million dollars, Tops' parking lot, and one I've had wrong (#76, 26 October 2003)

Peace Bridge Update: The Air Gets Poisonous (26 August 2003, #75)

The Hoyt/Jackson Peace Bridge Row II: Response to John Maggiore (25 August 2003, #74)

John Maggiore: The Hoyt/Jackson Peace Bridge Row I: What’s wrong with Bruce Jackson’s criticism of Sam Hoyt (25 August 2003, #73)

Sam Hoyt’s open mike: campaigning and chaos in the Kavinoky (9 August 2003, #72)

The Peace Bridge and Eminent Domain (28 July 2003, #71)

Transcript of New York State Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions public hearing on eminent domain legislation, Buffalo, 16 July 2003

Sam Hoyt v. Peace Bridge round 2: NYS Assembly Corporations Committee to hold Peace Bridge hearing July 16 (11 July 2003, #70)

Peace Bridge Update: a meeting, a discovery, an ego, a process at risk (11 July 2003, #69)

Sam Hoyt: Defending the Bridge Blockade (26 June 2003, #68)

The Hoyt-Peace Bridge File (Buffalo Report 23 June 2003, #67)

Sam Hoyt Peace Bridge obstruction update: Hoyt stages Albany hissy-fit, wins big, screws Buffalo (23 June 2003, #66)

Sam Hoyt Declares War on the Peace Bridge (17 June 2003, PBC #65)

Peace Bridge v. WTC (Buffalo Report 8 April 2003, #64)

Public pressure and the International Railroad Bridge option. (Buffalo Report 25 February 2003, #63)

Vincent "Jake" Lamb: "I'm listening to people." The Peace Bridge Expansion Project Now (Buffalo Report 6 January 2003, #62)

Pat McNichol, Luis Clay, Mark Boyer and Bill Wachob, Peace Bridge Expansion Workshop #4: It's NIMBY time (Buffalo Report 16 December 2002)

Designing the Bridge: collaboration or predestination? (Buffalo Report 27 October 2002, #61)

Peace Bridge Pier Repairs: A PBA Memo (Buffalo Report, 27 October 2002)