Traffic around Blue Water Bridge improving after end of Canadian border strike

Wait times for cars and commercial vehicles were beginning to speed up early today after massive back-ups at the Blue Water Bridge Friday amid a Canadian border workers strike.

According to the Michigan Department of Transportation's social media for the bridge, wait times heading eastbound into Canada were reportedly 30 to 45 minutes as of 9 a.m. 

That's down from the hour wait reported earlier this morning and overnight.

A request for comment from the Canada Border Services Agency wasn't immediately returned. Port Huron Police forwarded comment to border officials.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada and Customs and Immigration Union reached a tentative agreement with the CBSA late Friday, according to a release from the unions.

The move would reportedly bring an "immediate end" to work-to-rule strike action that began Friday. Under the action, customs employees only performed duties to the "letter of the law," obeying all basic policies and procedures. 

The strike spurred long lines of traffic along interstates 69 and 94 well into Friday night, as well as in Port Huron along Pine Grove Avenue. The entrance ramp to the bridge from Pine Grove had been closed because of the back-up.

MDOT regional spokeswoman Jocelyn Hall confirmed the tentative labor talks in Canada was expected to be "resulting in improved crossing times" today.