Canada To Buy SW Detroit Property For Bridge

After years of wasting time while everyone mollycoddled every professional malcontent and rustic ignoramus who believed a new Detroit-Windsor border crossing would be a Trojan Horse filled with "Chinamen" and milk consumers from Canada, work is beginning on finally getting that new bridge built. Canada is about to start acquiring land in southwest Detroit for the bridge's U.S. landing point and customs/toll plaza.

Windsor Star: The Canadian government has dedicated $25 million in its recent budget to start buying property in Delray for the new Detroit River bridge, while U.S. federal administrators debate the size and scope of the customs plaza, Canada’s Consul General Roy Norton said Wednesday.

 

The long-awaited downriver Detroit River International Crossing project is underway following Washington’s approval six weeks ago of a presidential permit, Norton told a gathering of the Michigan District Council of the Urban Land Institute who were in Windsor for a tour of the new $1.4-billion Herb Gray Parkway.