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• It's "Moroun's attitude of entitlement that has caused the big recession we are in"?? Whatever. Talking like that is "despicable". I'd like to know how our depressed local economy is not affecting you? Do you just sit at home collecting free welfare thinking up this nonesense because you're too lazy to get out there and find a job or are you a CUPE worker who knows he has an easy guaranteed high paid job for life with annual increases when everyone else has to suffer and take a cut or struggle trying make mortgage payments? Maybe it's your attitude of entitlement of easy CUPE jobs or free welfare that's caused all the businesses to get up and leave this city causing this "big recession" in Windsor. The laws gotta change were you have to work for welfare so you come down off your pedestal and into reality and I don't have to read this BS.

  And, no, I don't work for the bridge company, Girish. I wish I did. Doesn't seem like anyone will with all this stonewalling going on. So enjoy your free welfare and the computer and Internet access it pays for so you can write up this crap and scare off anyone who wants to give this city a chance and invest because you have nothing better to do with your time than complain about anyone trying to improve our local economy.

  If I were mayor of this city I would be bending over backwards to get Moroun to spend his money to get 4,000 high paying jobs in Windsor for the first year. That's a lot better than the 100 or so $10 an hour min. wage crap he's brought in from Sutherland. Instead of giving millions of taxpayer dollars to his lawyer buddies to stonewall Moroun, he should be negotiating with Moroun and getting it in writing as to how many of those 4,000 jobs will be local Windsorite hires. He's not acting in the public interest by just stonewalling. You want corruption, look no further than fast eddie...

• You're right David, it is the workers that caused the recession, not the banks, the Wall Street traders or the economists that recommended derivative trading whole-hearted. I'm sorry that you seem to be experiencing tough times, but don't blame powerless workers (who are likely your neighbours) for the problem, blame the real culprits.

  David, if you can tell me why the bridge Moroun wants to build will create more jobs and more government revenue than building it somewhere else than you might have a point. But I'm pretty sure that you can't.

• Dear David, when you use quotations, perhaps you should actually quote what was said. What makes you think that I, or anyone against this bridge, is unemployed? Maybe some of us are professionals that do not rely on the auto industry. You want to know why businesses are leaving the city? Unions. That is why... not because we are trying to prevent a bully from building a bridge where we don't want it. And, since it was already stated here by at least 3 people and you still didn't hear: The DRIC bridge would create just as many jobs as the Ambassador project. SO, if it is a quick job you are after, wouldn't you rather build a bridge where the city wants it?

• If the DRIC bridge would create jobs, let them build both. Then, you'd have twice as many jobs--even better. But, I doubt the DRIC bridge would be built as fast with as many workers seeing how slow public works like EC Rowe took. We can't wait four years for studies before a shovel hits the ground and people are paid to work. Moroun is offering to make this happen this year if politicans will let him and that's when we need it the most. If it wasn't for Moroun taking the initiative, I doubt our government would seriously consider spending the money on the DRIC bridge. It would simply be some whimsical idea like the Detroit-Windsor cable car.

  From a business standpoint, why would you build somewhere else when you've already invested all this money in the land and paperwork. It's not good business sense to spend tens of millions on the groundwork and suddenly write it off and move to another area of town and spend tens of millions more. And, where do we even see that in practice. In Toronto, the government simply widens the highways. How wide is the 401 running through Toronto now, 14 lanes? If there's a river under the 401 when it's widened, they add a second bridge next to it. You think they don't knock down buildings next to the highways. They don't go building a new parallel highway several km from the 401 divert traffic and then rejoin the 401 another several kms down. It makes no business sense to do that. And, a lot of people live close to the 401 in Toronto, so I don't buy those pollution exposure arguments. But, if the government wants to build a second bridge in addition to this one, let them. The city can use the extra jobs...

  Maybe if Windsor's economy was in better shape, we could debate this another four years, but come on, in this economy, we need these jobs now...

• Can we get back to the main topic? The topic is Indian Road. On that topic, there is nobody to blame other than the Ambassador Bridge Company, who bought, and boarded up houses before they even had the backing or the legal permission to build a 2nd span. I am glad that the city will not let him tear them down: for all we know at this point, ABC could tear them all down, and never be allowed to build a bridge. Then we have nothing. The Bridge co destroyed the street, that's all there is to it. They should be forced to restore the street back to how they found it (and Michigan Central Depot too).

• Anybody who thinks truck traffic between Windsor and Detroit in twenty to thirty years will approach the volume we have today had better look at the facts. Global oil production, according to the best estimates, peaked in 2005 and there hasn't been a major new discovery since the North Sea and Alaska North Slope oil fields were discovered in the 70's. Alberta's huge tar sands are dependent on huge quantities of water that are discharged as contaminated waste and never purified. Eventually, the province of Alberta will have to decide between keeping the tar sands open or providing drinking water to its' citizens. Anybody who thinks that more roads will solve our truck traffic problems had better think again.

• Concerned Citizen. there is somebody else to blame. Windsor city council. After all it as THEIR interim control bylaw that did not allow the ABC to build their greenway buffer. It was THEIR interim control bylaw that didn't allow residents to do work on their own properties without jumping through a bunch of red tape that took over a year just to remove one dangerous dilipated garage.

  For those blaming the ABC (and I sure as heck don't like Maroun either)think ofhow the city has not even talked with ABC; how they haven't even invited one of the largest taxpayers in this city to an economic forum(s); how they disregard their own bylaw (no banners or placards in council chambers while they have a massive Greenlink banner)to accomodate their own agenda; how they cut off the representatives of teh ABC while allowing others to speak for more than 10 minutes at council meetings. Is it any wonder Windsor has such a poor reputation amongst business owners around the entire planet?

  Sure the ABC is playing their game but it wa a game introduced by Windsor City Council. The sad part is the residents suffer. But to blame only the ABC is a bit much.

  But I already see above if you questiont he motives of council while baching ABC things are o.k. If you back up the ABC with FACTS then one MUST be paid by the ABC. I sure wish I was being paid I could use the money in a city with 13.9% unemployment. I will also add that a new road would be built and that too would create jobs. The americans couldn't build the span here so Canadian workers would have to be used on this side of the border.

• George is right. We will not be shipping goods by truck in the same quantity that we have been in the last 20-30 years. The Indian Road fiasco has multiple sources- everyone is to blame. Regardless (and I don't mean that to degrade those who have been personally affected on Indian Road) but either proposed crossing, a 2nd Ambassador span or DRIC is going to negatively affect most residents of Sandwich. Do you want to live in a neighbourhood that is bordered by two international crossings and industrial port facilities?? We don't need a tunnel, we don't need to widen or do anything to Huron Church. Traffic is decreasing and will continue to as Ontario and Michigan continue to move from a secondary (manufacturing) economy to tertiary (service) economies. And that is okay...

• Similar dealings on the other side.
  http://www.metrotimes.com/culture/story.asp?id=13915

• what pisses me off is the city won their battle againstMoroum but thwey still won't dump this bullshit interim bylaw i hope this mess turns around and bites king eddie and council in the ass ral hard