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Transportation
4:25 pm
Fri June 22, 2012

Forbes: "The Billionaire Vs. The Nerd: Who Gets To Control International Trade With Canada?"

Credit http://buildthedricnow.com/
A concept drawing of the new bridge to be built across the Detroit River. The bridge has yet to be designed.

Check out Forbes staff writer Joann Muller's in-depth look at the politics behind this month's bridge deal:

-Via Elaine Ezekiel, Michigan Radio Newsroom

 

Detroit
4:30 pm
Tue October 4, 2011

New attack on proposed new Detroit-Windsor bridge

Credit (photo by Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio)
A view of downtown Detroit and the Ambassador Bridge from about a mile downstream, near the proposed site of the new international bridge.

The owners of the Ambassador Bridge are once again attacking Governor Snyder’s  push to build a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.  

The company says experts it hired say the proposed bridge would not attract the billions in federal money promised by the governor and would end up costing Michigan taxpayers money.  

Matt Moroun is the vice chair of the Ambassador Bridge company.   He says "building a new bridge to Canada will not garner any more federal funds for highways in Michigan…then what Michigan gets ordinarily from the feds every year.”  

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