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have lived in windsor my whole life and had the opportunity to work on the bridge for 2 years. glad to see its almost completed. it has changed the landscape of the waterfront.
@@xxdesertstorm YEA the Big mackinaw Bridge was built in 3 years for 97 million dollars , Who so long for a tiny river and 8 years and 10 billion dollars
He'll still be making money, just not as much. Since his bridge will now be less desirable he will have to charge lower tolls than the new bridge. Monopoly busted.
He probably won't lose much money. The Ambassador was pretty much at capacity anyway. Not able to meet modern day demands. In the short term he might loose a little but with the ever increasing traffic demands in the area he will still rake it in.
I believe Manuel Maroun single-handedly ruined Detroit because of his hammerlock control over the Ambassador Bridge. But now, with the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, Detroit can complete its transition from manufacturing to being one of the largest goods transit ports in the world, which will help revive Detroit's economy.
2:33 the label says "I-17" when its supposed to be I-75 2:42 the highway you labelled "highway 401" is actually the EC Row expressway, the actual highway 401 is the next interchange in the background
One thing you didn't mention is that the U.S president (Trump?/Obama?) said they didn't want to share the cost of financing the bridge, so Canada paid for the bridge in it's entirety, with Canada recouping the money with tolls from the American bridge users.
something else that wasnt stated, Manual Maroun, in 2018 ran ads on Fox and friends in the U.S begging trump to cancel the bridge project. the man was a menace to the project. now the fuckers dead and his son cant do anything about it. also as a bonus info, those of us on the windsor side as im a residant, wanted thise bridge most because huron church which is leading up to the bridge are mainly city road, they were never meant to handle the wear and tear of hundreds if nor thousands of heavy 18 wheelers passing over them each day, so the cost to keep them maintained is a nightmare, plus the traffic impedes many of us who need to pass from one side of huron church to the other, so with the new bridge and being able to hook right up to the highway, is going to be a god send for all us windsorites.
I don't understand people like that billionaire, he's like 90 years old, what does he need even more money for, he'll never be able to spend it before he dies anyway. Just pure addiction, and at the potential cost of making millions of people's travels less efficient! That's just evil.
He's actually already dead, he died back in 2020. His descendants who inherited his fortune could have done with a lot of free passive income, but it really wasn't good for either of the two countries involved to let it carry on.
@AlRoderick Realistically the Canadian and US government need to seize it, their lack of maintenance and by extension the threat to safety is reason enough, should've never sold an international crossing to a private entity..
@@braydons5623The Canadian government actually tried to buy it almost a decade ago. It is likely that they will try to buy it again after the Gordie Howe has been opened for a few years and the Ambassador Bridge’s revenues have dried up.
BINGO, most of the worlds billionaires are evil ! it normally requires ruining 1000's of lives to become that rich,, and buying off the rethuglikkkan party to make sure you never pay taxes !!
The video says it's a 3km drive to the 401 highway from the bridge, and then highlights E.C. Row Expressway as the 401 connection. So that's an error. It's more like, get off bridge and drive 8.5km through local street lights until you reach the 401 where it has already been extended for the yet to be open bridge.
ya we Windsorites have had the entire extension for gordie how done since 2015, the Americans been Slacking xD makes sense since we wanted this bridge the most. to the point wed even foot the bill for it, those trucks on Huron Church are a menace to local traffic and are expensive to maintain.
So a big thing that you missed that Maroun did, was he was so confident his second span plan would work that he started building highway ramps for the new span before it was approved. When it wasn't, he was left with ramps to nowhere that you drive past when you take the Ambassador Bridge from the US into Canada.
The highway you highlighted as the 401 is actually the EC Row express way in Windsor. The 401 is reached by continuing straight down the road out of border control
So Maroun fought against the bridge until 2018 when he was in his 90s because he thought that it would reduce his future profits? His greed was unlimited. He was already wealthy. What the heck did he think he was going to do with those extra profits in the few years he had left? He died in 2020 and the bridge still isn't completed now four years later so the bridge would not have cost him a cent unless he left instructions with his descendants to to turn any future profits into cash to throw into his grave.
Every resource I can find says San Ysidro is the busiest international border crossing in North America in terms of actual crossings. Detroit/Windsor is only "busiest" in terms of value of traded goods.
Exactly! When I read the reports of height progress on the towers, I always chuckled seeing the Canadian side measured in SI units and the American side in Imperial units.
I mean traffic was still getting from the ambassador bridge to the 401 regardless. If anything, huron church rd is going to be less abysmal to drive on
@@flacarile9790 Driving on huron church in the evening on a weekday is more than abysmal😵💫. And if you’re a pedestrian.. oh boy. Most truck drivers are stupid and would block the intersection. Man I really wish they get their license suspended.
Being a '60s scoop native having PM Mark R MacGuigans grandchildren who grew up across from Herb Gray a wonderful man who did the 75-year reunion as a guest as he was a child @ Victoria Public School. This just reminds me of growing up & raising my children in Windsor this will be beautiful as I helped the Mayor in 95 keeping the Town of Tecumseh named that calling my son Tecumseh as well as raising my children travelling and learning our Ojibway culture taken with the residential schools affecting my father and grandparents I did not know as a 60s scoop native a horrific part of history for many of my people I remember helping my 110-year-old teacher look through many artifacts found while they created the new riverfront and Casino.
Great video man, I'm from Windsor and just wanted to add a minor correction around the 2:45 mark. That road is not the 401 but the E C. Row Expressway. The 401 is actually further down past another set of lights. As a former resident it was a pain to get down that road due to the border traffic. Especially when truck drivers block entire intersections when traffic is slow.
Looks like a great improvement. No mention of rail though. I recently scrapped travel plans to Michigan, due to disjointed connection from VIA to Amtrak. Maybe Joe was working on it with the IRA.
Congrats on your channel, almost 340k 👍. I've been watching since you were 15k subs. You should make a throwback video. One similar to your old content, a little treat for all your long-time subs
Your accent is way more Canadian than mine, and my ancestors were Loyalists. Impressed, and a little nauseated. Although, I truly love how you only provide metric measurements, and no translations to that other one. Thank you!!
New bridge was necessary and late to be built; but it isn't the ultimate solution. There should be ferry services from different points, let’s say Port Stanley, ON and Cleveland, Ohio. Canadian highways can handle the traffic
Don't give me any ideas as that would serve OHIO, Pen etc... I might have to do a market assessment on that, which I have considered a couple of years back pre covid. lol
hey dude not sure if any other Windsorite has mentioned this but at 2:45 you show the wrong highway as that is an expressway and does not connect to the 401, EC Row was made in the 70's and the 401 was built in post WW2
The bridge is almost done it doesn’t even look like what it does in the thumbnail depicting them now „Gordie“ Howe Bridge, also the population of Detroit has just increased this year and last, so Detroit is going in the right direction
Good content but the effects made me dizzy. Try leaving a single map on screen for more than 0.6 seconds, then highlighting elements of it as you talk about each part. Try not spinning things, north is up and leave it that way. My god. Chill.
The Simpsons have Mr. Burns and his monopoly and Windsor / Detroit residents have Manny Moroun and now his son. Glad to see the monopoly is finally ending.
2:43 ok I have to correct this. You got it wrong that is not the 401you highlighted that is not the 401 it,s the EC Row Express way and it did not connect with the 401 until it was extended to connect in the other direction from your viewing point.
Bridge Cables that span over the lanes will drop large amounts of ice and snow on the vehicles. This has happened in BC with the new Port Mann bridge. Their high tech solution is to drop rusted loops of chain down the cables to clear the ice and snow. This also involves constantly closing one lane in both directions for worker to deploy and reinstall the chains.. lets see what happens with this bridge during winter
The problem is what happens after it opens. Ontario built toll Hwy 407 across the top of Toronto for billions of dollars and then sold it to a Spanish consortium for pennies on the dollar. It's expensive and billing is enforced by the government withholding renewals on your license. The "DMV" here is also a private for-profit company. Same thing with the dome in Toronto. Built and sold to politicians' buddies for a tiny fraction of what it cost.
Can’t happen here with a joint federal jurisdiction asset. That conversation has already been stated and made clear legislation would not allow it for two sovereign federal governments.
PM Harper's vision and his conviction of the benefits of this bridge to both the USA and Canada is well justified.I hope he will be there to cut the ribbon.🎉
We already have a wall at OUR 🍁 southern border. It prevents pedestrians crossing the old, unused CP rail bridge at the whirlpool in Niagara Falls, so people have to go through Customs. SHORT bridges work!
The title implies that traffic will only be going from Canada to the USA, which is, of course, not true. The USA will benefit from this new bridge every bit as much as Canada.
@@DanielSlaughter-vi5hy this "frozen waste land" provides like 80% of your lumber. Would be harder to get shit done if most of your lumber imports just stops. Not to mention our other exports to the U.S
This video misses the key part of the story: the Ambassador Bridge is a privately owned business and its owners held up the contruction of public bridges for decades through politicking, politicking and, uh, politicking. Heaven forfend anyone should consider the possibility of massive corruption.
Maybe true, but the trade between the US and Canada is far more important proportionally for the Canadian economy than the US, they took on the responsibility for funding the project so they could control it, because they didn't know if any subsequent administrations or legislatures in either the state of Michigan or the US federal government would bow to lobbying (by Manny Maroun or others) and withhold funds. Besides, it's basically a loan, they're going to earn the cost back on tolls which will be paid by whoever crosses regardless of what country they're from.
It was a smart negotiation on the Canadian part. Windsor suffers more from the truck traffic. Canada benefits more proportionately than the US from the bridge. But all that is besides the point. Michigan's budget was not doing well at the time. And while people wanted the new bridge, Maroun could have basically said it would cost too much and that Michigan didn't have the money to do this right now. Canada took that issue off the table. And if Maroun fighting so much concerning the bridge didn't let you know, the bridge will make plenty of money. Canada essentially loaned the bridge money, and will get it's money back.
@@jakeryan4545 Interesting perspective. Canadian feds stuck their nose in, where are US Feds? The disadvantage is that Canada ends up carrying the loan.
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have lived in windsor my whole life and had the opportunity to work on the bridge for 2 years. glad to see its almost completed. it has changed the landscape of the waterfront.
Thanks to you and all those who worked on it. Truly an inspiration to Canada and US citizens. Gordie Howe is a perfect name for it.
its about time its finishing as its been well over 10 years and the main issues was Harper, Moroun Family and Covid
@@xxdesertstormharper has nothing to do with it but if i had to guess you’re a leftist liberal.. ps it was built under Trudeau not harper
Thanks Trudeau
@@xxdesertstorm YEA the Big mackinaw Bridge was built in 3 years for 97 million dollars , Who so long for a tiny river and 8 years and 10 billion dollars
Maroun sounds like a true disciple to the temple of self-interest.
He pulled himself up by his own bootstraps with his grandfather's inheritance!
You don’t make billions of dollars with out screwing other people over…
He'll still be making money, just not as much. Since his bridge will now be less desirable he will have to charge lower tolls than the new bridge. Monopoly busted.
@@chrisvickers7928 I hope they tear it down.
He probably won't lose much money. The Ambassador was pretty much at capacity anyway. Not able to meet modern day demands. In the short term he might loose a little but with the ever increasing traffic demands in the area he will still rake it in.
I believe Manuel Maroun single-handedly ruined Detroit because of his hammerlock control over the Ambassador Bridge. But now, with the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, Detroit can complete its transition from manufacturing to being one of the largest goods transit ports in the world, which will help revive Detroit's economy.
He also ruined the west end of windsor by buying up properties and allowing the homes to fall apart...
You guys need to work together, we need more trade between friendly countries to weed out the human rights abusing countries.
Forget about the past. Share this opportunity between the two countries for a peaceful prosperity.
wount work, Michigan is very short on electricity
Maroun the most hated man in Windsor. Deliberately created a giant slum in Windsor
2:33 the label says "I-17" when its supposed to be I-75
2:42 the highway you labelled "highway 401" is actually the EC Row expressway, the actual highway 401 is the next interchange in the background
I was just about to say something about the second one lol
Exactly!!
Lol u from Windsor? 😂
Lmao. I too was coming to say this. I had to rewind the video a few times because I was all wait a minute that’s not right.
@@CruzCGK yup
I live in Windsor and you can see the bridge no matter where you are in the city.
Especially when driving West down Wyandotte.
@@drbluewolf even west down Tecumseh its visable
Love your videos Zach. Keep it up!
One thing you didn't mention is that the U.S president (Trump?/Obama?) said they didn't want to share the cost of financing the bridge, so Canada paid for the bridge in it's entirety, with Canada recouping the money with tolls from the American bridge users.
Think that would've been trump. And I have some good reasons as to why.
It was Obama that didnt want to pay, also this bridge was approved, planned and paid for by harper government in Canada.
all the planning happened under Obama there wasn’t enough kickbacks in it so he gave it all away just like he did Chrysler
It was because the owner of the Ambassador bridge tried his hardest to cancel the project. He got it delayed by 20 years.
something else that wasnt stated, Manual Maroun, in 2018 ran ads on Fox and friends in the U.S begging trump to cancel the bridge project.
the man was a menace to the project. now the fuckers dead and his son cant do anything about it.
also as a bonus info, those of us on the windsor side as im a residant, wanted thise bridge most because huron church which is leading up to the bridge are mainly city road, they were never meant to handle the wear and tear of hundreds if nor thousands of heavy 18 wheelers passing over them each day, so the cost to keep them maintained is a nightmare, plus the traffic impedes many of us who need to pass from one side of huron church to the other,
so with the new bridge and being able to hook right up to the highway, is going to be a god send for all us windsorites.
I don't understand people like that billionaire, he's like 90 years old, what does he need even more money for, he'll never be able to spend it before he dies anyway. Just pure addiction, and at the potential cost of making millions of people's travels less efficient! That's just evil.
He's actually already dead, he died back in 2020. His descendants who inherited his fortune could have done with a lot of free passive income, but it really wasn't good for either of the two countries involved to let it carry on.
@AlRoderick Realistically the Canadian and US government need to seize it, their lack of maintenance and by extension the threat to safety is reason enough, should've never sold an international crossing to a private entity..
@@braydons5623The Canadian government actually tried to buy it almost a decade ago. It is likely that they will try to buy it again after the Gordie Howe has been opened for a few years and the Ambassador Bridge’s revenues have dried up.
BINGO, most of the worlds billionaires are evil ! it normally requires ruining 1000's of lives to become that rich,, and buying off the rethuglikkkan party to make sure you never pay taxes !!
Psychopaths don't think like you and I. Most billionaires are psychopaths.
The video says it's a 3km drive to the 401 highway from the bridge, and then highlights E.C. Row Expressway as the 401 connection. So that's an error. It's more like, get off bridge and drive 8.5km through local street lights until you reach the 401 where it has already been extended for the yet to be open bridge.
ya we Windsorites have had the entire extension for gordie how done since 2015, the Americans been Slacking xD
makes sense since we wanted this bridge the most.
to the point wed even foot the bill for it, those trucks on Huron Church are a menace to local traffic and are expensive to maintain.
Came here to say this as well. Although I respect the animations, I wish it highlighted the right road.
getting to the bridge when CBP wants to be 🍆's and back trucks up is a nightmare
What a Maroun!
*Mauron
Moroun not Maroun
@@TrumpFacts-wl2ik wrong as well its Moroun, Google it
So a big thing that you missed that Maroun did, was he was so confident his second span plan would work that he started building highway ramps for the new span before it was approved. When it wasn't, he was left with ramps to nowhere that you drive past when you take the Ambassador Bridge from the US into Canada.
The highway you highlighted as the 401 is actually the EC Row express way in Windsor. The 401 is reached by continuing straight down the road out of border control
So Maroun fought against the bridge until 2018 when he was in his 90s because he thought that it would reduce his future profits?
His greed was unlimited.
He was already wealthy.
What the heck did he think he was going to do with those extra profits in the few years he had left?
He died in 2020 and the bridge still isn't completed now four years later so the bridge would not have cost him a cent unless he left instructions with his descendants to to turn any future profits into cash to throw into his grave.
you cant reason with rich people, they are mentally ill.
Maroun is a prime example of why we don't need billionaires.
You like the commies? Commies have billionaires too.
Good good project for the two neighbors from the North
Actually literally south at that point
Every resource I can find says San Ysidro is the busiest international border crossing in North America in terms of actual crossings. Detroit/Windsor is only "busiest" in terms of value of traded goods.
I'd tend to think busiest in terms of individual crossings too. Most important might have been a better term.
My hometown we are so happy to have this new bridge. Can’t wait for it to be open
So the bike lane will be 3.6 meters wide on the Canadian side and 142 inches wide on the US side
Exactly! When I read the reports of height progress on the towers, I always chuckled seeing the Canadian side measured in SI units and the American side in Imperial units.
@@BPaini oh well as long as there isn’t a miscalculation so they don’t meet on the middle
Fun fact: ON401 is the busiest highway.. in the WORLD. And with this Bridge, i guess no. 2 wouldn't even be in competition lol
I mean traffic was still getting from the ambassador bridge to the 401 regardless. If anything, huron church rd is going to be less abysmal to drive on
@@flacarile9790 Driving on huron church in the evening on a weekday is more than abysmal😵💫. And if you’re a pedestrian.. oh boy. Most truck drivers are stupid and would block the intersection. Man I really wish they get their license suspended.
and the 401 will be only way on and off
@@HomelanderIsSick well when you look like 👳🏾♂ and act the same way here as back home you start to wonder why they get hated
@@HomelanderIsSick if only WPD did something instead of watch junkies get high
Being a '60s scoop native having PM Mark R MacGuigans grandchildren who grew up across from Herb Gray a wonderful man who did the 75-year reunion as a guest as he was a child @ Victoria Public School. This just reminds me of growing up & raising my children in Windsor this will be beautiful as I helped the Mayor in 95 keeping the Town of Tecumseh named that calling my son Tecumseh as well as raising my children travelling and learning our Ojibway culture taken with the residential schools affecting my father and grandparents I did not know as a 60s scoop native a horrific part of history for many of my people I remember helping my 110-year-old teacher look through many artifacts found while they created the new riverfront and Casino.
Great video man, I'm from Windsor and just wanted to add a minor correction around the 2:45 mark. That road is not the 401 but the E C. Row Expressway. The 401 is actually further down past another set of lights.
As a former resident it was a pain to get down that road due to the border traffic. Especially when truck drivers block entire intersections when traffic is slow.
WOW - Fascinating - Thanks for the update. It is going to be a wonderful thing when fully activated.
Not only are we building this bridge, we JUST finished rebuilding the Champlain bridge and it is really nice. It cost 4.2B$
Looks like a great improvement. No mention of rail though. I recently scrapped travel plans to Michigan, due to disjointed connection from VIA to Amtrak. Maybe Joe was working on it with the IRA.
Congrats on your channel, almost 340k 👍. I've been watching since you were 15k subs. You should make a throwback video. One similar to your old content, a little treat for all your long-time subs
Your accent is way more Canadian than mine, and my ancestors were Loyalists. Impressed, and a little nauseated. Although, I truly love how you only provide metric measurements, and no translations to that other one. Thank you!!
I like the Falcon box on the top of the bridge. That's a nice touch lol
no need to swear cobber
Amazing engineering.
New bridge was necessary and late to be built; but it isn't the ultimate solution. There should be ferry services from different points, let’s say Port Stanley, ON and Cleveland, Ohio. Canadian highways can handle the traffic
Don't give me any ideas as that would serve OHIO, Pen etc... I might have to do a market assessment on that, which I have considered a couple of years back pre covid. lol
2:47 you highlighted the E.C Row Expressway as the 401
I am 5min down the street from this on the Canadian side. Love it! It's going to drive my property value up like crazy! 7 acres on Front Rd baby!
Wait, i thought you were dead Maroun
Thank you for this video it was very Educational. I would like to see more on the green space on the Canadian side and what it will look like.
hey dude not sure if any other Windsorite has mentioned this but at 2:45 you show the wrong highway as that is an expressway and does not connect to the 401, EC Row was made in the 70's and the 401 was built in post WW2
The bridge is almost done it doesn’t even look like what it does in the thumbnail depicting them now „Gordie“ Howe Bridge, also the population of Detroit has just increased this year and last, so Detroit is going in the right direction
I LOVE these kind of video's :)
AKA The SukitMatty Bridge. Its quite impressive.
Good content but the effects made me dizzy. Try leaving a single map on screen for more than 0.6 seconds, then highlighting elements of it as you talk about each part. Try not spinning things, north is up and leave it that way. My god. Chill.
just play it at a slower speed gramps.
@@Fanta....creep
I was apart of this project :D
I live in Windsor Ontario you can see that bridge from all sides of the city
You can see it from Essex lmao
The Simpsons have Mr. Burns and his monopoly and Windsor / Detroit residents have Manny Moroun and now his son. Glad to see the monopoly is finally ending.
The graphic at 2:46 shows EC row, not the 401
Neat video though!
Yeah. Just so you know CANADA taxpayers paid IN TOTAL for this bridge. Any of y’all over the border wanna dispute this? I’m right here y’all. Eh.
I looked for you and still couldn't find you. Eh, so are you still camping underneath the bridge? Eh.
@@jakebarnes1950 theres no need to openly mock him and what he's saying. Grow up.
Canada paid for the bridge and the approach infrastructure on the Canadian side. U. S. paid for the approach infrastructure on the U.S. Side.
Very interesting. It is a beast of a bridge.
Finally a freeway to freeway link there. I wish the Canadian side would get its act together for Manitoba 75 too.
cost in the billions
It is insane that a private person can own an international bridge
not this one
Great video
FYI. What you said and show was not the 401 and was actually E.C. ROW express way.
2:42 is not the 401. It's the E.C. Row Expressway - the 401 is actually a little farther
Thumbnail needs updating, the two sides are connected now, it should open next year.
It's huge
2:43 ok I have to correct this. You got it wrong that is not the 401you highlighted that is not the 401 it,s the EC Row Express way and it did not connect with the 401 until it was extended to connect in the other direction from your viewing point.
It's cool they honour a sportathlete this way.
For the area, it was a no-brainer, and it received his personal approval before he passed away.
They missed a golden opportunity by not calling it the mike myers shagadelic expressway.
@@Fanta....😂😂😂
Please Talking About California High-Speed Rail
2:45 I believe that’s EC Row, not the 401
About time they built a second bridge
its been built 🤣🤣started 10 years ago
You mislabeled the 401 and instead showed the EC Row, which is a Municipal Highway
Gordie Howe Bride should have income the Detroit Qline from Detroit downtown to Windsor downtown.
What's going to happen when the Pergrine Falcon box's inhabitants decide to relieve themselves on the cars below?
Have a sign: "Keep your wipers on"?
Fun fact: the house where American slaves were relocated to Canada via the Underground Railroad still stands, it’s a bar in Sandwich Towne, Windsor.
The graphic somehow says I-17. Should be I-75
Bridge Cables that span over the lanes will drop large amounts of ice and snow on the vehicles. This has happened in BC with the new Port Mann bridge. Their high tech solution is to drop rusted loops of chain down the cables to clear the ice and snow. This also involves constantly closing one lane in both directions for worker to deploy and reinstall the chains.. lets see what happens with this bridge during winter
It barely snows at all in Windsor
Windsor gets 1” of snow each month. Maybe less. Not sure if your assessment is correct.
@@keithlabonte2547 Each month? Even in the summer?
@@kyle381000smart arse lol 😆
Winter with lots of snow in Windsor/Detroit!?? Not too likely!😂😂😂
i love it
2:33 i-17 is in Arizona buddy XD
Detroit, Arizona
He said the right interstate number, but had the wrong interstate number on screen, which is common in videos like this.
@@Alejandro0821Phoenix is pretty much the Detroit of Arizona
it is also the highest structure in Windsor.
Thank goodness they’re doing tolls. I don’t want to live 4000km away and pay for this with income tax
The problem is what happens after it opens. Ontario built toll Hwy 407 across the top of Toronto for billions of dollars and then sold it to a Spanish consortium for pennies on the dollar. It's expensive and billing is enforced by the government withholding renewals on your license. The "DMV" here is also a private for-profit company. Same thing with the dome in Toronto. Built and sold to politicians' buddies for a tiny fraction of what it cost.
Can’t happen here with a joint federal jurisdiction asset. That conversation has already been stated and made clear legislation would not allow it for two sovereign federal governments.
What's about train and public transportation ?
I cannot wait for a another beautiful futurology video like this one
How fast Will the bridge return the investment and how much per trip cost???😢
"Positively impacting the environment". Builds it next to Zug Island
PM Harper's vision and his conviction of the benefits of this bridge to both the USA and Canada is well justified.I hope he will be there to cut the ribbon.🎉
Oh, it must be so that the Americas can take total advantage of the Canadians
Well we paid for it
Build bridges , not walls
We already have a wall at OUR 🍁 southern border. It prevents pedestrians crossing the old, unused CP rail bridge at the whirlpool in Niagara Falls, so people have to go through Customs. SHORT bridges work!
Would you sleep at night with your front door open?
Correction/Fact Check. It's not the Canadian Government paying for the bridge. It's the Canadian taxpayers paying.
Also wrong. The bond issuance funded the bridge. Tolls will pay it off.
The title implies that traffic will only be going from Canada to the USA, which is, of course, not true.
The USA will benefit from this new bridge every bit as much as Canada.
Oh boy, more construction that'll take several years for it to finish.
Think you meant connecting the US to new India, dunno about this Canada place your referring to
cool...
It's a bridge to Canada
Crazy that the richest country in the world cant cover half the cost of a crucial link to Canada.
That’s just good negotiating, Canada needs it more than America does
Uh, it's a bond financing endeavor.
We finance the frozen waste land enough.
@@DanielSlaughter-vi5hy this "frozen waste land" provides like 80% of your lumber. Would be harder to get shit done if most of your lumber imports just stops. Not to mention our other exports to the U.S
That's not the 401 haha. Good video tho!
It's only the value of 7 days of trade. Good deal.
This video misses the key part of the story: the Ambassador Bridge is a privately owned business and its owners held up the contruction of public bridges for decades through politicking, politicking and, uh, politicking.
Heaven forfend anyone should consider the possibility of massive corruption.
5 years to do environmental studies is crazy!
Had to make sure no polar bears or beavers would be affected by this bridge, lol
@@willie9397 lol
is it done yet....
The background music finally got to me and I learned more from switching over to Wikipedia.
nice
Put your hands up
The mouron properties should have been taken under EMINATE DOMAIN.
The bridge is more like operation save Detroit.
So what happens to the Ambassador Bridge?
Staying open.
Nice enough video, but chill with a video effect or transition ever 0.93 seconds... it's just tiresome.
The effects are like that because it's to keep viewer watching and not click off 😊
@@danielf7473Corroding attention spans is not something to smile about 💀
The dude got carried away with the transitions. If he cut them by 50%, I’d say that would be about right.
cool your jets grampa
@@Fanta.... Cool your brainrot, Fanta 💀
The RW Wingnuts tried to stop the bridge construction.
I'm Canadian and enough billionaires control us already. Take a hike.
Why is Canada stuck with the bigger part of the costs? Lousy negotiation!
Odd that the US side is north of the Canadian side.
Maybe true, but the trade between the US and Canada is far more important proportionally for the Canadian economy than the US, they took on the responsibility for funding the project so they could control it, because they didn't know if any subsequent administrations or legislatures in either the state of Michigan or the US federal government would bow to lobbying (by Manny Maroun or others) and withhold funds. Besides, it's basically a loan, they're going to earn the cost back on tolls which will be paid by whoever crosses regardless of what country they're from.
Canada keeps the American share of revenue from the bridge until the bridge is paid off.
It was a smart negotiation on the Canadian part. Windsor suffers more from the truck traffic. Canada benefits more proportionately than the US from the bridge. But all that is besides the point. Michigan's budget was not doing well at the time. And while people wanted the new bridge, Maroun could have basically said it would cost too much and that Michigan didn't have the money to do this right now. Canada took that issue off the table. And if Maroun fighting so much concerning the bridge didn't let you know, the bridge will make plenty of money. Canada essentially loaned the bridge money, and will get it's money back.
@@jakeryan4545 Interesting perspective. Canadian feds stuck their nose in, where are US Feds?
The disadvantage is that Canada ends up carrying the loan.
The bridge to south detroit (Windsor)
LETS GOO
Toll on both sides or on the american side because we already paid for 3/4 of it
6.4 b money well spent
This is great but I wish the US had an open border with Canada
Same. I don't see why we can't have it.
Guns
@@baryte6891 Migrants
@@noco7243 We have to prevent those Canadians from bringing their poutine here to the US. We will not allow that monstrosity here!
There should be some border control due to guns and drugs, but they should make it a lot easier to cross.
Buffalo could've had this but just couldn't get it done.
At some point in history, maybe, but right now the Canadian side of that crossing is an absolute mess, traffic-wise.
coulda shoulda