The Ambassador Bridge turned 83 years old on the weekend, and, according to some nervous pedestrians and motorists, it’s showing its age, writes Dave Battagello in the Windsor Star.
Crumbling concrete and holes in the bridge roadbed have left some University of Windsor staff and students wary as they pass by on sidewalks or park their cars on nearby lots rented by the school.
“I do worry about it,” said one university staff member who has parked in the lots next to the bridge the past year and a half. “When you see trucks driving over the holes, that can’t be good.”
“You do see workers sometimes up there patching it up. I’ve never seen any chunks that have fallen.”
The bridge company has installed metal or wooden barriers underneath the roadbed designed to catch falling concrete.
