Transit BarometerNorth American travel & border data
Free · No signup · No tracking

Put live border waits on your website.

One line of HTML shows your visitors the current wait at any Canada–US crossing, straight from the CBSA and U.S. CBP feeds. Built for Niagara and Windsor hotels, tour operators, and anyone whose guests have to cross a border to reach them.

Build my widget How to install it
29
Crossings covered
2
Directions — into Canada & into the U.S.
8KB
Total transfer, gzipped — script + data
$0
Forever
Step 1

Build it

Pick your crossings and style. The preview below is the real widget running on live data — what you see is exactly what your visitors get.

Which crossings
Direction
Lanes
Theme
Live preview
Your code Copied 

        
Paste it wherever you want the widget to appear. Both lines together — the
        <script> can also live once at the bottom of your template if you are
        placing several widgets.

      

    

  






  Step 2
  
Install it

  

    

      WordPress
      
Block editor

      
    
        
  1. Edit the page, click + and add a Custom HTML block.
    2. 
        
  2. Paste the code. Click Preview — the editor itself will not run it.
    3. 
        
  3. Update. Done.
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Elementor: use the HTML widget. Divi: the Code module.

    

    

      Squarespace & Wix
      
Embed block

      
    
        
  1. Squarespace: add a Code block, set it to HTML, paste.
    2. 
        
  2. Wix: Add → Embed → Embed HTML, choose Code, paste.
    3. 
        
  3. Give the block room — it grows to fit its container.
    4. 
      

    

    

      Plain HTML
      
Any site

      
    
        
  1. Paste the <div> where the widget should sit.
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  2. Paste the <script> once, anywhere on the page.
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  3. No build step, no dependencies, nothing to keep updated.
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Styling. The widget renders inside a shadow root, so your
  theme cannot break it and it cannot leak styles into your page. It reads the width of whatever
  container you put it in — drop it in a 300px sidebar and it switches to a stacked layout on its own.
  Set data-theme="auto" and it follows each visitor's light or dark preference.






  The rules
  
Free, with one condition

  

    

      
Yes

      
    
        
  • Use it on any site, commercial or not, on as many pages as you like.
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  • Use it forever. There is no key, no quota, and no account.
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  • Change the heading, the crossings, the theme, the width.
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  • Quote our numbers in your own writing, with a link.
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No

      
    
        
  • Don't remove the attribution link. That link is the whole price.
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  • Don't edit the figures, or present stale ones as current.
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  • Don't call it real-time. It isn't, and neither are the agency feeds.
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  • Don't re-host border.js on your own server — you'd freeze it and miss fixes.
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  Honesty
  
Where the numbers come from

  
Two official government feeds, unchanged. We parse them, join them, and pass them
  through. We add nothing and we round nothing.

  

    

      Into Canada
      
Canada Border Services Agency

      
CBSA publishes travellers' and commercial waits for 29 crossings as an open CSV. It
      refreshes roughly hourly, and each crossing carries its own timestamp — which the widget shows,
      unedited, under every row.

      
CBSA border wait times →

    

    

      Into the U.S.
      
U.S. Customs and Border Protection

      
CBP publishes passenger and commercial lane delays per port. We match its ports to the
      CBSA crossings bridge by bridge, so a Niagara embed shows the right span rather than a city average.
      26 of the 29 crossings have a matching CBP port; the rest show the Canada-bound figure only.

      
CBP border wait times →

    

  

  
Both agencies publish about once an hour. Nothing here is a
  live measurement of the queue in front of you, and the widget never claims otherwise — it prints the
  agency's own "published at" line beside every number. If a feed goes quiet, the widget says so instead of
  showing a number it cannot stand behind.

  

    See the full Border Barometer
    Download the open data
  






  For developers
  
Or just take the JSON

  
The widget is a thin shell over one public endpoint. It is CORS-open,
  needs no key, and you are welcome to build your own thing on it.

  
GET https://transitbarometer.com/api/border.json

// every crossing, both directions, cars and trucks,
// each with the agency's own timestamp and a severity band

  
Refreshed every 10 minutes from source. Please cache for at least 5 minutes rather than
  polling per page view — the underlying feeds only change hourly anyway. Attribution appreciated the
  same way as the widget.

  

    
data-crossingsRegion key (niagara, detroit-windsor, ontario, bc, quebec, atlantic, prairies, all) or a comma-separated list of crossing slugs.

    
data-directionboth · into_canada · into_us

    
data-lanescars · both (adds commercial)

    
data-themeauto · light · dark

    
data-titleHeading text.

    
data-maxShow at most N rows.