Queenston St Bridge

As of June 9, 2026, the Queenston St bridge in St. Catharines usually stays closed about 14 minutes each time it opens for a ship (typically 12–15 minutes), based on 289 recorded closures and closing-soon alerts.

The Queenston Street bridge, which locals still call the Homer Bridge, has carried traffic over the Welland Canal in St. Catharines since 1928. It's Bridge 4, a rolling-lift bascule: the deck rolls back on a curved base to lift open for ships. Traffic backed up here so badly that the Garden City Skyway was built over the canal in 1963; Queenston Street still handles the local crossing.