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• Employ minimal Windsorites?! The Windsor Star said that twin spanning will create 4,000 jobs in the first year alone. http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Ambassador+Bridge+gets+loan+approval+twinning/1403319/story.html

  The people who get those jobs need will spend money in Windsor in the very least on lodging, food and entertainment which will have a significant impact on improving our depressed economy. That's a huge "investment" in Windsor's economy.

  Of course, if you're using a public sector model like the one that took 20 years to build EC Rowe you'll have a lot less employment when it's needed the most. The private sector understands the need to lots of workers to work on an accelerated work schedule because no project completion equals no money to pay interest on the project.

  I don't get it. Do the people who post on here live in a bubble where their incomes are guaranteed for life? Do they not know anybody who's unemployed? Am I the only one on this website struggling in this bankrupt city? Enough with all the grandstanding. Fast Eddie is talking about getting all these companies to move to Windsor and invest, yet when someone actually does come down our local polibureau sets up smoke screens and stonewalls ruining our local economy even more.

  Moroun is in his 80s with a few years left. Do you think he's really trying to spend the last few years of his life screwing this city? He can't take his money to the grave. Think about what kind of example this kind of stonewalling sets for other companies looking to invest in this city. If I was a billionaire like Moroun, I'd say f'ck this city, our brainless politicians, and all its negativity for trying to help. I'd be cashing out and taking my money to Bermuda and living up the last few years of my life. I've gotta hand it to the guy for hanging in there for as long as he has when all the movers and shakers packed their bags for cities a lot more welcoming.

• Yes, Andrew, the Forster athletic field is still in regular use by the high school but with abutting property on both sides of it being acquired, it suggests there will soon be pressure to close Forster. If you stand on Huron Church at Mill’s dead-end looking west you’ll see the field and the high school are in line with the now-vacant former university residential properties the bridge has acquired.
  Whether the proposed new bridge is good or bad for Windsor can’t be determined because, so far, the company hasn’t publicly detailed the impact of its expansion plan on the community. Homes are not just boarded up on Indian Road. There are single-family homes shuttered as well on two blocks of Edison, at College and Felix, and now Bloomfield Road near Prince Road some 1.5 km from the bridge. Who is doing this and why? All this is consistent with the route for a four-lane truck highway from the E.C. Row Expressway to the Ambassador Bridge which shows up in a 1997 city-sponsored traffic study known as WALTS. Google “ring road Ambassador Bridge.”
  Sandwich residents have a reason to be concerned because of the rumours which no one will dismiss. Will there be a truck inspection yard handling 10,000 trucks daily located in the residential community? Will the truck traffic on Huron Church, that South Windsor wants tunneled, be re-routed on a final leg to the Ambassador Bridge through Sandwich’s Bloomfield public housing neighborhood? Will the high school and elementary schools be able to remain open if the nearby housing stock is reduced?
  Some answers could confirm or relieve these concerns.

• When i lived in the building we made our checks out to Obolus LTD. The owners name was Ed Meyer at the time. What i am hearing now is that he sold the building but was still doing all the management duties for the bridge company. The building was over 30 years old and in need of a full makeover. The roof leaked and the elevator was broke at least once a week.

• Obviously Dave is one of those paid by Moroun. The 4000 jobs statement is FALSE. First off, that is Stamper saying that, and Im sorry, but since funding is by US bonds, it will be employed by USA employees. (just like now, how many of the bridge workers are Canadians? all the tolls are on the US side) 2nd off, These are not JOB, these are JOB/years. That means, you can employ 500 people for 8 years, or 8000 people for 6 months. Doesn't look like its a long term solution to anything. And 3rd, and Final point: what more jobs will a 2nd Ambassador span create than the DRIC bridge? How will the DRIC bridge not create just as many? Looks like you are eating up the Stamper-spinster propaganda. All I am saying is, why do they not make their plans clear? In the Free Press Yesterday, 11 politicians are blocking M.C.Kilpatrick's attempt to block funding to the DRIC bridge. Remember, Moroun has been backing Kilpatricks for years to get what he wants. Corruption runs deep in that circle.

• JB: yes, Mill St used to connect with Huron Church Rd.

• I grew up at 631 Indian Road, between Mill and Wyandotte (looking forward to the update on Indian Andrew). What the bridge company has done is shameful. Moroun has destroyed the area around the bridge. It used to be a vibrant neighbourhood with many professors and professionals mixed in with the students. Most of the houses were well-maintained. Now it is simply a slum and it breaks my heart everytime I return to Windsor. When my mom moved away about 3 years ago I think she was the last person on the block that still owned the house she lived in.

  St. Francis school used to be a great place, where kids from lots of backgrounds and economic classes mixed. Now it is empty and possibly closing, which would be the last Catholic school other than St. James west of Huron Church.

  The second span will create jobs no matter where it is. Why on earth does it need to be in the middle of a neighbourhood, right beside the ever-growing University? And why on earth would anybody let it be privately owned. If the city let's Moron get away with this it will haunt Windsor for decades.

  Forster is now surrounded and it won't be long before the pressure is on to close the only public high school west of Ouellette and North of EC Row, which will further the destruction of the West End.

  BTW... Mill Street was blocked off about 1990 during a period when Huron Church was being changed around.

• While I'm fired up, I'd like to point out that Windsor's wonderful MPP's are absolutely useless on this issue. Sandra P. is a disgusting example of somebody who is keeping quiet and putting her own ambitions ahead of the good of the people she represents.

• I didn't know democracy was allowing a billionaire to do what he likes without having to properly go about building such a significant structure. The bridge company tries to play by their own rules, read the Windsor Star article about the US Coast Guard threatening lawsuit against A.B.C. because they've already started building the new bridge in Detroit. But once again Mr. Stamper, representing the bridge company says its all improvements and a big misunderstanding. Of course it is!

• What the Ambassador Bridge Co is trying to do is despicable. There is a voice recording of Stamper's response to The DHS/Coast Guards warning for potential lawsuit on one of Detroit's news websites (can't remember which) where Stamper arrogantly blames the Coast Guard for misinformation and accuses MDOT of 'meddling' in the Bridge's business. What company thinks that they are above the law? It is this attitude of entitlement that has caused the big recession we are in. Finally, the lawmakers on the US side are awaking and stopping the Moroun/Kilpatrick corruption circle. What will Moroun's local Windsor blogger say now? Oh... he will probably focus on trying to defame all local politicians (because anyone in the way is the enemy to him!). He likes to disclose all politician's salaries, but he will not disclose the amount Moroun pays him. Be careful what you read out there... And, as chet said, We need to get our MP's and MPP's involved in this! Or maybe we should go higher and start sending letters to the PM, US President, and the Gov-General!

• forgot to mention: The Bridge is also under investigation for funneling money from the Gateway Highway enhancement project to their new, and unapproved span. That was they had the MI politicians well paid off (Kilpatrick, Knollenberg, etc..) Sorry Moroun, you can't build a bridge under the radar (you should have tried to do a tunnel if you wanted your project to be secret).