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There are loads of spots along the border there where the US/Canada separation is only a grassy median [0]. So it's odd but not unbelievable. There's an even m

by rtkwe 7y ago

There are loads of spots along the border there where the US/Canada separation is only a grassy median [0]. So it's odd but not unbelievable. There's an even more extreme example to the east near Vermont where the border runs through individual buildings in the town of Stanstead [1,2] and there are just white lines on some streets you're not supposed to cross. [0] https://goo.gl/maps/XasmFG9Ms6FJUUsRA https://goo.gl/maps/XasmFG9Ms6FJUUsRA [1] https://goo.gl/maps/5aWrrN5TjuE8ennS7 https://goo.gl/maps/5aWrrN5TjuE8ennS7 [2] https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/stanstead-town-border https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/stanstead-town-bor...

mikepurvis 7y ago
Pretty funny that there's no street view for the laneways crossing the border in your second line. The SV driver was like "yeah nope, not going there."
- daveslash 7y ago
  Honest question: How are people supposed to cross the border right there? Clearly there's a maintained and passable road there -- there's a stop sign, and then a white line where the border is. Are you supposed to have some pre-approval like TSA pre-check? Call ahead? Stop and wait for a Border Agent to come running out of the library? Go by better to ask forgiveness than ask permission?
  - beerandt 7y ago
    Self reporting is a thing for citizens. Some unmanned crossings have phonebooths that directly connect to an agent. Edit: I'm not sure that these still exist as a standalone thing. They may have been phased out after 9/11.
YZF 7y ago
The article does say "South of Vancouver". I'm from the Vancouver area and I can't say I've seen random unmarked roads crossing the border (there are some exceptions further east including some campgrounds that are in the US but are only accessible from the Canadian side). It's pretty easy to accidentally cross the border on foot though. Over the last few months there have been a lot more stories about the US/Canada border. Apparently a lot more people are getting barred arbitrarily from entering the US. I would normally expect these sort of incident should be resolved with a warning and returning to the other country. It seems for some reason someone decided to make an example out of these guys.

by rtkwe 7y ago

mikepurvis 7y ago

Pretty funny that there's no street view for the laneways crossing the border in your second line. The SV driver was like "yeah nope, not going there."

daveslash 7y ago
Honest question: How are people supposed to cross the border right there? Clearly there's a maintained and passable road there -- there's a stop sign, and then a white line where the border is. Are you supposed to have some pre-approval like TSA pre-check? Call ahead? Stop and wait for a Border Agent to come running out of the library? Go by better to ask forgiveness than ask permission?
- beerandt 7y ago
  Self reporting is a thing for citizens. Some unmanned crossings have phonebooths that directly connect to an agent. Edit: I'm not sure that these still exist as a standalone thing. They may have been phased out after 9/11.

YZF 7y ago

The article does say "South of Vancouver". I'm from the Vancouver area and I can't say I've seen random unmarked roads crossing the border (there are some exceptions further east including some campgrounds that are in the US but are only accessible from the Canadian side). It's pretty easy to accidentally cross the border on foot though. Over the last few months there have been a lot more stories about the US/Canada border. Apparently a lot more people are getting barred arbitrarily from entering the US. I would normally expect these sort of incident should be resolved with a warning and returning to the other country. It seems for some reason someone decided to make an example out of these guys.