The new design and plan for the Peace Arch border has finally been released after a delay in January. Officials presented a design that will have a long thin building on the east side of the freeway and up to 10 inspection booths. Larger secondary inspection and parking areas are also included.

Several Blaine residents are very frustrated because they have been waiting for several years for the government buy their properties which are required for the new project. The government hopes to start making offers in the second week of August and finish the purchases by January. Construction is scheduled to begin in Spring of 2007 and be completed by December 2009.

That completion date is cutting it quite close to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver BC which will be held in the early part of February. Officials insists that they have ways of expediting the project should it start to fall behind. The big question is - how much will that cost?