Detroit-Windsor Bridge Proposal

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• George, the world is growing, not shrinking. The DRIC is not waste of money. However, it would not have been necessary, if they had built an actual highway to the Ambassador Bridge, instead of the empty promises of one, that were made in the '30s.

  The Ambassador Bridge is the best site for a bridge, and the US made all of their highways line up with it. Why couldn't Canada have done the same, instead of ending the 401 many miles away and having city streets lead up to it? With the new bridge, you are much further south and only align with I-75, I believe. Although I don't support much of what Mr. Moroun has done, he's right and a twin span is the best idea...IF the 401 lead to its door-step. It should, but it doesn't.

• Twin the Ambassador Bridge an turn the west side of Windsor, Huron L and surronding areas into a wastland like around the American side.The Bridge Co. runs roughsod over city, and state laws, do we want that here?
  THe 401 ways built in the fifties, the bridge was not that busy compared to now, the big upswing in traffic was the switch in shipping from rail to truck, and just in time delivery.

• There were advertisements posted here from the 1930s for at least a couple of things, I think it was subdivisions in the South Windsor area that had "Huron Super Highway" listed where Huron Line is. There was a plan to turn it into a highway back then, but it never happened. And What exactly would you be saving by not turning it into a super highway? Some strip malls? Some run down houses? Plenty of houses were eliminated for the current plan. I was just saying that if the highway had been built 80 years ago, as promised, the border crossing would be in a much better situation right now. The other side of the bridge isn't a wasteland because of the bridge, it's the economic make-up of Detroit. And the Canadian side isn't exactly an ideal community. I work in the US and cross the Ambassador every day. I was living in Tecumseh, but wanted to be closer to the bridge, but there was no way in hell I was moving in right next to it. South Windsor is close enough for me, thanks.

• Every time I go through the Tunnel I get big drips. Let's stop the discussion about a new bridge and focus on a new tunnel. It seems to take 20 years to get anything done and I'll need an Amphicar by then.

• The adds from eighty years ago about Ojibway being the sreele capatail of Canda, never happened the dreams went bust. The pople that where developing and wanted to build houses probaly where responsable for these ad?
  Kings Highway #3 ran from Niagra Falls to the Ambassador Bridge this would be a super highway in the fortys and fifties, and even the sixties.
  I don't live on the west side of Windsor, but your description of the area is very ignorant. Also if you work in Detroit why not move their and live by the bridge ?

• Richard, explain to me how my description is ignorant? It's a dump. Why don't you move to the West End and tell me how great it is? It isn't. I won't move to the US, because I have a VISA, not a green card. If I get another job, I can no longer own property and live in the US. I've always wanted to live in Canada, and work in the US.

  And King's (Queen's) Hwy #3 still runs to the Ambassador Bridge. That's the official name for Huron Line, however, it is NOT a highway. It has mover a dozen stop-lights and intersections and they've added more in the last 10 years. That's not what I'd call a highway. It WAS a highway, but the city "planners" didn't do any planning, and jut let the area develop and get congested with traffic, instead of upgrading the "highway." But after how well the E.C. Row expressway went, maybe they were hesitant about trying to build another highway in the city. Actually, it should have been done before the EC Row, I think.

• high·way
  /?h??w?/
  Noun
  A main road, esp. one connecting major towns or cities.
  (chiefly in official use) A public road.
  Synonyms
  freeway - expressway - motorway - road - highroad
  Mr Google says Huron Line is a highway.

• Mr. Uzzy says it has stop lights, and does not have on and on ramps. What does Mr. Google call that?

• The area along Kings higway #3 south of the Huron Line Tecumsehrd intersection did not become part of Windsor until annaxation in 1965, before that it was Sandwitch West township
  as was what was referred to as south Windsor. Every thing south of the CP tracks on Dougal Rd. was out of Windsor. if you want to blame people for poor planning atleast blame the right ones.
  I believe in the fifties or early sixties the Provence of Ontario decided to refer to provencial roads as Kings highway, an not change signage with sex of Monarch.

• The Ambassador Bridge was already a quarter century old before the concept of a highway with controlled access and no traffic lights came into the public mind. The Interstate Highway and Freeway system was first authorized by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956. Earlier, in Ontario, Premier Mitchell Hepburn (Lib. in office 1934-42) had plans to double Highway 2 to four lanes but it would still pass through towns. Some second bridges were built in Kent County but no roads ever connected to them. That’s because the Progressive Conservatives took over power in 1943 and the Hepburn proposal was scrapped, Then the PCs remained in control until 1985. Even the 401 was just two lanes with oncoming traffic conflicts and some at-grade intersections in an area between Chatham and London until the mid-1960s. The EC Row Expressway was designed by the province with a right of way large enough to accommodate expansion. But in 1997 Premier Mike Harris turned control of the expressway over to the city to cut provincial costs. Municipal politicians have steadfastly blocked connecting the expressway to the 401 which would speed traffic to the ageing bridge. And they have got public votes for the stand.