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Best time to cross the Thousand Islands Bridge border

The lowest-wait and busiest windows at Thousand Islands Bridge, by weekday and hour, from ten years of CBSA readings (pre-2020).

Pre-2020 pattern. Based on the CBSA’s 2010–2020 hourly readings for Canada-bound passenger vehicles at Lansdowne (Thousand Islands Bridge). Use it to compare days and hours, not to expect a specific wait today. Check the live wait before you leave.

Lowest-wait windows

Ranked by the 90th percentile (one reading in ten was this long or longer), then the median. Hours are local time at the crossing.

  1. Monday 11:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (543 readings)
  2. Tuesday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (537 readings)
  3. Friday 07:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (534 readings)
  4. Wednesday 21:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (533 readings)
  5. Tuesday 10:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 0 min (530 readings)

Busiest windows

  1. Friday 17:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (504 readings)
  2. Friday 14:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (510 readings)
  3. Friday 13:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (514 readings)
  4. Saturday 12:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (528 readings)
  5. Friday 12:00: median 0 min, 90th percentile 30 min (539 readings)

Over April 2010 to March 2020, Sunday 00:00 had the lowest median passenger-vehicle wait (0 min, 485 readings); Sunday 00:00 the highest (0 min, 485 readings).

Weekday by hour

Thousand Islands Bridge: 90th-percentile passenger-vehicle wait into Canada by weekday and hour (minutes), 2010–2020. Hours are local time at the crossing. Cells need at least 5 readings.
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Thousand Islands Bridge: median passenger-vehicle wait into Canada by weekday and hour (minutes), 2010–2020. Hours are local time at the crossing. Cells need at least 5 readings.
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Darker cells are longer waits; a dot means too few readings. See the history page for the weekday summary and the period covered.

Holidays and events

This series is not broken out by holiday, so we do not state holiday waits. Long weekends and summer Fridays are the periods when the busiest windows above typically last longer; compare against the live figure on the day.