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Police now dealing with the ongoing issue of keeping that bridge open. that is their first priority. and ongoing priority. it s a very long stretch. about a three mile stretch. of surface streets from the bridge here in canada. to the main transportation corridor. highway 401. they will have to secure. that s what police are doing now. trying to figure out how to secure the area. all the side streets that lead to the surface street. and keep protesters from blocking traffic in that area. and on the bridge itself. in the days ahead. they have to coordinate with the u.s. and the state of michigan to make sure that all the pieces of this massive puzzle come back together. thank you. live to toronto. with the disinformation project at the university. she spent years studying the narrative and conspiracy theories in canada. thank you for being with us. thank you for inviting me. ....
Morning. not much push back and there you see the clear passage behind you. reporter: the bridge is open both ways and starting to get back to normal. lots of traffic coming from canada to the u.s. seeing lots of traffic from the u.s. side coming this way as well. police are going to have a big job on their hands in the days and weeks ahead because protests are promising to come back and try to block traffic, to slow roll along the roads. when you enter canada on this side, about a three-mile jaunt to the main highway, 401 along surface streets. lots of neighborhoods, lots of ways to access that road. that s what police are dealing with. they had to put up cement barriers to try to control it. it s going to be a game of sort of cat and mouse is the way the police chief phrased it, until the protests ceased. there are locations across the ....
Great patience in restraint on the part of police who waited out the protesters for a couple of days before moving all out but now the challenge is going to be keeping that corridor open because the bridge, when you get on the canadian side, it s about three miles of surface streets until the next highway and lots of areas where protesters have said they re going to get in, try to slow things down. there s still a very heavy police presence along this route trying to keep anyone who moves in there moving along and not letting anyone stop, basically. so it s going to have to continue for a while, because you have protests for the protests across canada as well. several other locations across canada, much smaller border crossings than this one and they don t pack nearly the economic punch as the closing of the border crossing here but other protests in canada still going on and obviously, in ottawa as well where protesters have taken over parliament hill there and refusing to leave and m ....
Their ongoing priority now. it s a very long stretch, about a three-mile stretch of surface streets from the bridge here in canada to the main transportation corridor, highway 401 that they will have to secure. that s what police are doing now. trying to figure out how they can secure that area, all the side streets that lead on to the surface street and keep protesters from blocking traffic in that area and on the bridge itself in the days ahead. they also have to coordinate with the u.s. in the state of michigan to make sure that all the pieces of this massive puzzle come back together. back to you. in new zealand protesters shouting freedom from covid restrictions as the sentiment in canada spreads globally. along with new zealand, protests in france, australia, the netherlands all took place in reaction to covid rules and vaccine mandates. a small south pacific nation ....
Utahns drove less in 2020 yet more died in accidents â though not on highways State officials are asking Utah motorists drivers to pick one of five areas where they can improve their driving. (Photo courtesy of UHP) According to the Utah High Patrol, it handled fewer traffic fatalities in 2020 than in 2019, although the number of traffic deaths in Utah rose. Â Â | March 15, 2021, 6:31 p.m. Utahns drove fewer miles and died in greater numbers on state roads in 2020 â but most of that unexpected divergence was not the result of people driving at extreme speeds on the stateâs highways. The number of cars on the roads decreased 13% from 2019 to 2020, according to preliminary figures from the Utah Department of Transportation, while the number of fatalities rose 13% to 276. But the number of highway fatalities fell. ....