Canadian Plaza - Gordie Howe International Bridge construction site (Windsor, Ontario)

USA / Michigan / River Rouge / Windsor, Ontario
 border checkpoint, under construction
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The Gordie Howe International Bridge, originally New International Trade Crossing (NITC), and Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC), is an international construction project and committee between Canada and the United States to create a new border crossing over the Detroit River. The crossing, as proposed, will connect Detroit and Windsor by linking Interstate 75 and Interstate 94 in Michigan with the new Windsor–Essex Parkway connection to Highway 401 in Ontario. This route will provide uninterrupted traffic flow, as opposed to the current configuration with the nearby Ambassador Bridge, which connects to city streets on the Canadian side.

The project began in 2004, and received approvals in 2007 and 2008 with Ontario beginning Windsor–Essex Parkway construction in 2011. The highway, renamed the Herb Gray Parkway in December 2012, will be completed by 2020.

Construction has started. Project has received presidential approval.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe_International_Bridge
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Coordinates:   42°16'30"N   83°5'12"W

Comments

  • Will be cutting into naturally sensitive areas and places of significant historic importance.
  • Get over proposal 6.. Canadians are paying for this bridge and the Americans agreed to it.
  • What naturally sensitive areas? The former site of Windsor's only failed subdivision? Is that also of historical importance?
  • This is where settlement started in 1749. Immensely historic.
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