Gordie Howe International Bridge

**gnome** · January-05-20, 06:55 PM

No fair taking pictures of your backyard Gistok.

**Gistok** · January-05-20, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by gnome

No fair taking pictures of your backyard Gistok.

HA!!

Gnome... 2 years ago that's the way it looked in the 6 ft. easement I have behind my garage... but I cut them down to about 2 ft. stumps last year... and again this year. I want to take them out in the spring time to grow something more exotic [[and now legal!).

**gnome** · January-05-20, 08:30 PM

well, the leaves of your new crop kind of look like ghetto palms.

**gthomas** · February-14-20, 10:08 AM

The two A-Shape Towers will start to rise this summer! https://www.enr.com/articles/48479-t...-begin-to-rise

**ILKSGAMI** · March-06-20, 02:58 PM

https://youtu.be/OF5yT2gXNcs
Found this on YouTube today and thought it was worth a share, pretty cool perspective of the whole Canadian side progress.

**Metro25** · March-06-20, 07:28 PM

somewhere right now Moroun is crying into a pillow.

**Bigdd** · June-03-20, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by Metro25

somewhere right now Moroun is crying into a pillow.

I'm guessing he'll be ok.

He's 92 now,.. and will be 97 or more by the time the new bridge opens.

And then,.. he'll be able to crush them on price,... his bridge being long since paid for.

I feel for our Canadian neighbors, I suspect they're going to take it in the shorts.

Traffic across the bridge and tunnel have fallen 7% since 2012, even as the economy improved. Increasing business with Mexico, but decreasing business with Canada, changes in just in time manufacturing, the big CAW union strike a few years back, plant closings? And that's before the new North American trade agreement.

In 5+ years time, the 2 bridges and tunnel will share the Ambassador and Tunnel's decreased traffic.

I'd hate to be the only one of the three making massive bond payments.

**401don** · June-03-20, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by Bigdd

I'd hate to be the only one of the three making massive bond payments.

Don't worry. It's not an issue. Didn't you hear? Gov'ts just print endless amounts of money now and debt no longer matters.

**ILKSGAMI** · June-02-20, 10:52 AM

Looks like a crane is up and the tower footings are really starting to take shape over on the Canadian side.https://www.gordiehoweinternationalb...com/en/gallery

**Detroitdave** · June-04-20, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by ILKSGAMI

Looks like a crane is up and the tower footings are really starting to take shape over on the Canadian side.https://www.gordiehoweinternationalb...com/en/gallery

I was so happy to see this !

**Satiricalivory** · June-03-20, 12:28 PM

I really love the clean minimalist underbelly of the bridge! Hoping it ends up actually looking like that.

**Jimaz** · June-03-20, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by Satiricalivory

I really love the clean minimalist underbelly of the bridge! Hoping it ends up actually looking like that.

I think that's a relatively new construction technique where they conceal both compression and tension components within the deck. I've seen it used on new freeway interchanges. It makes the airborne ramps appear to soar weightlessly.

**Richard** · June-03-20, 04:04 PM

^ it’s the Canadian taxpayers that co signed,the builders and operators actually assumed no risk.

**401don** · June-04-20, 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by Richard

^ it’s the Canadian taxpayers that co signed,the builders and operators actually assumed no risk.

No kidding. I'm Canadian and believe me our printing machines are on overdrive as well. Tune in to CBC around 11:00 am for the daily Trudeau briefing "where I'm throwing a few billion at today." When this bridge idea started 5 billion seemed like a lot. Now it's not even a blip on the radar.

**Lowell** · June-23-21, 09:55 AM

Latest flyovers show pylons rising on both sides of the river. The expanse of cleared land is immense.

Detroit Side:

Windsor Side:

View from Canadian side with pylons in foreground:
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**Satiricalivory** · June-23-21, 12:18 PM

^ those flyovers are months old. It is much further along right now.

**Jimaz** · April-27-22, 07:54 AM

Why a Billionaire Tried to Stop This Bridge

The Gordie Howe International Bridge will transform the US-Canada border- but it was almost never built.

The project gets some well deserved respect in this new video.

**Smirnoff** · April-27-22, 08:21 AM

Excellent video -- thanks for posting!

**Jimaz** · August-25-22, 10:48 AM

Here's some more footage from a month ago.

Gordie Howe Bridge July 2022 Update

Construction on the Gordie Howe Bridge continues at a steady pace. More of the deck has been attached as well as ground work across the Canadian site. Grading and paving are expected in the fall of 2022....

**Jimaz** · September-10-22, 08:02 AM

Binational Signing Paves Way for Cross Border Trail Tourism

Link the Great Lakes Waterfront Trail, part of the Trans Canada Trail network, to Michigan’s Iron Belle Trail and The Great Lakes Way via the new Gordie Howe International Bridge.

That sounds like a winning plan. I'm trying to imagine the experience of going through customs on a bike and the view from the bridge.

**401don** · September-10-22, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by Jimaz

Binational Signing Paves Way for Cross Border Trail Tourism

That sounds like a winning plan. I'm trying to imagine the experience of going through customs on a bike and the view from the bridge.

I walked over a couple of times in the 70's. 12 yr. old kids from Detroit used to take their bikes over to Windsor to swim.

**jcole** · September-10-22, 01:20 PM

Yeah, pre 9/11

Originally Posted by 401don

I walked over a couple of times in the 70's. 12 yr. old kids from Detroit used to take their bikes over to Windsor to swim.

**Zacha341** · September-10-22, 04:02 PM

I too cycled over the Ambassador on a ten speed racer bicycle decades ago. And now I'm rendered to the red goofy three-speed MOGO rental biks just peddling about WSU campus.

Still good exercise nonetheless I guess! ----

Originally Posted by 401don

I walked over a couple of times in the 70's. 12 yr. old kids from Detroit used to take their bikes over to Windsor to swim.

**Jimaz** · November-18-22, 05:06 PM

Why One Empty Bridge Wrecked Trade Between The US And Canada

Most people outside of Metro Detroit weren't aware of the Ambassador Bridge before it was blockaded. But its temporary closure showed why it was so significant, because of the disruption it caused to US - Canada trade. Still there were plenty of questions floating around even after the bridge reopened. So I wanted to make a video explaining the logistics that make this bridge important and why trade goes through this area.