http://www.am980.ca/channels/news/local/Story.aspx?ID=1643893
Port officials in Cleveland say they’re talking with their counterparts in Canada about the idea of passenger ferry service across Lake Erie, possibly next year.
uuummmmm…not sure what to make of this. All I know is that it looks like it already has been looked at how many times? 
…and service from Rochester, NY to Toronto was tried, failed, revived, failed, and talked about and talked about, and docked…several times…So what do these guys have that Rochester-Toronto doesn’t?
Wonder if they have factored in Customs and Immigration challenges. I’m thinking of the recent battle over on the west coast with the second daily Cascades service into Vancouver BC, and what our Canadian side wanted to charge them. Like Henry, I don’t see this as attracting enough traffic to succeed.
John
The last Lake Erie carferry service was abandoned in 1958 after the ferry was broadsided by an ore boat. In fairness, the service was heavily dependent on northbound coal loads and had been losing money for several years. It would be interesting to see what kind of traffic that the current proposal expects to carry.
I’m guessing that what they are thinking of is the traffic from/to London ON and environs…which seems, to me anyways, to be a bit of a pipe dream…but then dreamers will dream