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The Gordie Howe International Bridge is a monumental infrastructure project nearing the end of its construction. Spanning 1.6 miles, it will be one of the most expensive bridges ever built, connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Canada. This bridge is set to significantly boost trade and travel between the two nations. However, the project faced considerable opposition from billionaire Manuel "Matty" Moroun, who spent over a decade attempting to halt its progress. His resistance primarily stemmed from the potential impact on his profits from the existing Ambassador Bridge, which has long held a monopoly on commercial traffic in the area.
The importance of the Detroit-Windsor crossing dates back to the Civil War and remains crucial today, facilitating a major trade route between Canada and the US. Currently, three main crossings serve this route: the Michigan Central railway tunnel, the Detroit-Windsor tunnel, and the Ambassador Bridge, the latter handling a quarter of all truck traffic across the US-Canada border. The Gordie Howe Bridge, proposed in 2004 and funded by Canada, aims to alleviate the monopoly of the Ambassador Bridge and support the increasing trade demands.
The bridge's design features two large A-shaped towers and the longest main span of any cable-stayed bridge in North America. It will accommodate six lanes of automotive traffic and a dedicated bicycle and walking path. Construction faced numerous challenges, including political hurdles, funding issues, and the COVID-19 pandemic, but significant progress has been made. The bridge is expected to be completed by the end of 2024, with an official opening in the fall of 2025.
Despite the opposition from Moroun, the Gordie Howe Bridge is poised to enhance border efficiency and support the anticipated increase in traffic, expected to rise from 18,500 vehicles a day in 2016 to 26,500 by 2025. The project represents a significant investment in infrastructure, promising to improve trade and travel between the US and Canada while addressing the monopoly concerns of the existing crossings.
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Matty Moroun. One of the all-time great slumlords. He also owned Michigan Central train station in Detroit and let it ruin for decades. It too had to
Be wrestled out of his hands to the beauty it is now being opened as a palace like it was.
You know you tell a lot of baloney because you want the people that took 6 years to renovate something that they built and quicker time from scratch back in the day.
The ear find that your father builds a log cabin and if he doesn't cut the grass you feel it's okay people can take your grandfather's cabin.
It's just a building. A building like many buildings that took away the Marshland that used to once be here and all of the creatures before humans took away the purity of Michigan to poison it with pfas and radiation. The most treasured areas on Earth are peeing populated layered with concrete and radiated.
The last time I crossed the Ambassador Bridge, you could see the rebar exposed under the concrete decking. Talk about deferred maintenance. Looked like all the properties Maroun owned.
On one side of the spectrum, you have people like Gilbert
On the other side, you have people like maroun
😮😮😮they need to fix that one haha
How dare you, you mean to tell me the government can do things and maintain things better than capitalists. Well this throws my entire belief structures into question. Next your Ganna tell me that 40 top c.e.o's of the big 3 in Detroit decided to move there factory's to Mexico and China in the 70's and that caused the collapse of Detroit instead of what I've heard it being you know the union's;)
Dude this is impressive as hell for a ~5k channel I thought I was watching b1m for a sec. Great commentary, well informed, and engaging pics. Well done man wishing you all the success
The downside of the Ambassador Bridge twinning idea was that Windsor didn't want the existing traffic from the bridge never mind the extra traffic. Travelling east-west had become a nightmare. The Gordie Howe Bridge project allowed for this extensive truck traffic to flow from the US Interstate system directly onto the Canadian 400 series highways system therefore bypassing the city streets in Windsor. I don't think you got the funding model correct. The bridge is being built by the Canadian government and tolls are collected on the US side to pay back their costs of construction over 30 years.
and 6,4 billion is a rape ,
@@dknowles60 so is 10 $ eggs
@@dknowles60 America blows that much money on Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel every fucking week. Where's the new Peace Bridge from Buffalo to Fort Erie?
@@dknowles60better than the 1600’ train bridge in California that cost $13 billion and connects to nothing 😂
I thought the 'fees' were being collected in Canada, as its their bridge, they paid for it, what else are you rather unsure about?
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I thought it was great. Most videos like this are too long.
No one talks about this bridge and I live near it, so I was very flattered by the video. Thank you!
@@patrickthorn653 This bridge will be a gamechanger for Windsor and Detroit like nothing before it. I expect the area around it is going to boom.
Oh... It's going to be huge.
@@nullfield Windsor is actually south of Detroit
Very well done documentary. As you were mentioning current/past commercial crossings you neglected to mention the Blue Water bridge to the north. 😊 great work 👍
Most likely the world's most beautiful and modern bridge named after the greatest man that ever played the game of hockey. I'm honored to have met him in person and watched him play many times.
I appreciate you giving us the measurements in imperial and metric.
Beautiful bridge and great engineering.
However, the similar design bridge in Vancouver had/has a problem with falling ice in an ice storm.
Detroit Windsor is much more likely to see ice than Vancouver.
I really hope it is not an issue.
Good content and voice over. I subscribed. :)
App.60 miles north lies the Blue Water International Bridge at Port Huron, Michigan. This forgotten crossing rivals Detroit for commerce. Many truckers currently favor it for ease of crossing versus Detroit.. By a quirk of geography, it actually takes no longer to reach major Canadian cities from the American side by crossing here rather than Detroit, even though the crossing lies 60 miles north.
One of the issues with the Ambassador bridge (on the Canada side) is you have to get off the highway and go though downtown Windsor. That's ok if you're headed to a ball game or something downtown Detroit, but no good for anyone just passing through
Big reason to take Blue water up in Port Huron instead, though who fucking knows with the eastbound span being shut down both US and Canada traffic going on the westbound span
Last I checked the only reason this was controversial was because some rich douchebag didn’t want this bridge built because it would take traffic away from his aging almost 100 year old bridge two miles up stream. Which he refuses to repair btw
Yup, that is putting it into simple language which this vid did not do. That old bridge was his cash cow. Kind of like a casino, a license to print money. He did not want any competition.
Thank you for sharing!!! Extraordinary work! Great Engineers!!!
Beautiful Bridge
When I drove tractor trailer in the USa and going from the KW area in Ontario canada to Salt Lake City in Utah, I would always exit canda at the end of the 402 at Sarnia Ontario and cross the bridge ther into Port Huron Michigan, then 69 to interstate 80 and head west. Doing that was only 6 miles further then if I went over the much more expensive Ambasadour bridge
I live in Detroit and love this
It ain’t a Detroit project without one small little thing CONTREVERSY
The tunnel at the Michigan rail train station has been closed for a very long time. No trains or traffic of any kind use this tunnel. The existing Ambassador bridge is the busiest corssing between the US and Canada. It is also privately owned. The Maroun family was going to fight building another bridge because it impacts the revenue of the Ambassador Bridge.
Naming it after Gordie is the best part.
Thank you.
At first I thought it was a mistake that the OHIO legislature passed a resolution supporting a new bridge, but it actually makes sense.
The 2 halves of the bridge were officially connected on June 14, 2024.
Despite living in michigan, ive never crossed either the ambassador bridge or the tunnel. Granted ive only been to canada once so it not like ive had many opportunities. I instead crossed at the blue water bridge from port huron to sarnia
20 years to build a bridge is insane… 6.5 billion to build it is even more insane
No one even asked if it was needed.
No individual or corporation should own or control international travel between Canada/America
I've always thought of Goldie Hawn. Haha!
So Canadian funds were used to leverage $2.2Bn of USA highway funds so we are still paying about half the construction cost. Am I misinterpreting here? This is an awesome bridge project and will reduce traffic congestion and pollution in downtown Windsor
I don't know the answer, but my understanding is the Canadian govt basically funded the whole thing, but they are entitled to recoup the whole thing (including any US costs). Not sure if there's an agreement in place for the US to not charge any tolls on their side until Canada gets their money back.
Canada paid for everything. It's easier to jack up taxes in Canada than in the USA.
When I think about the architects today compared to the 1800s where one man would create 47 of the greatest buildings in the United States of America in one year. I would like to interview the architect of this bridge to see if he can design 47 of these bridges in one year, and maintain the schedule to see to all of the work sites and builders we always give the architect the credit of the build the designer can draw a cartoon but it's the engineers that create the mathematics and such for the design to happen as well as all of the laborers. You never see the building companies in builders get credit for the things built it always goes to a guy with a pencil
There is no controversy.........The public good will always trump a rich wealthy brat.
Gordi Howe was a great professional hockey player but c'mon, a 6 billion dollar bridge named after him!
How will this Bridge increase traffic? Wouldn't it just take away traffic from existing routes?
Greed. That's all. That's why anything is tried to be stopped.
Need a new bridge. Fine. All the old one did was haul in Canadian garbage. Most of the truck traffic is loaded with trash going to a land fill. How Michigan allows garbage/ trash into the state landfills/ incinerators is amazing. Someone is making a lot of money.
I remember Granholm taking heat for that, but it didn't stop her. Now look at her reward for allowing Canada to sh!t on Michigan. She's the US Secretary of Energy.
The ambassador is a on its last. We need a new bridge
Windsor, Ontario
So the bridge project started in 2018 and is a year behind schedule. Won’t be open to sept 2025 . The bridge is being paid for 💯% by Canada
I always told my dad video games it's okay it's not a waste of time because we have a bridge that we would cross countries with with a game player and we would honor a man who plays games and he's not known for raising a family or anything American to really mean what a bridge could mean but that the bridge means entertainment is the fake fiction that we will put first
Looking forward to driving through with my new SUV.....it's absolutely exciting!!!
Why do you call this Detroit and Canada’s bridge?
Detroit & Windsor
OR
Canada and United States
OR
Ontario & Michigan
They Do custom border stops passports traffic?
Can't anyone just design a simple bridge!!!!
Canadians get all tolls until the loan is paid!! Love it. Canadians have a strong public finance system for infrastructure.
It will take approximately 200 years to make profit due to scandals on the Canadian project side. The tolls aren’t going to be cheap for vehicle crossing.
What's Two Billion dollars
between friends ??
4.5 / 6.5 billion
How dies a bridge cost 6.4 bil?
Bidenflation
Cause it's not just the bridge. All the infrastructure is included in that price. Of which there are tons.
@@kennethloki7011 still...6400 million dollar bills. Hard to get the mind around but even more amazing it can be done at all.
One side of the bridge is higher than the other, but one video shows the American side as higher, while another video shows the Canadian side higher.???
All towers same height & size. Americans worked on US side. Canadian workers worked their side. Each set of workers proceeded at app.same pace. Depending when photos or filming took place, each side may have lagged or proceeded each other. One side was not permitted to out pace or lag the other substantially. Optical illusions of filming may have contributed to a little distortion also. My daughter has & is currently working on this bridge( as a foreman). She has worked on the ground, the towers & is currently on the bridge deck.
Why they named the Bridge after Hollywood Actress Goldie Hawn when she wasn't even from Michigan beats me.
HOWE NOT HAWN. GORDIE HOWE..FAMOUS CANADIAN HOCKEY PLAYER WHO PLAYED FOR DETROIT RED WINGS HOCKEY TEAM MOST OF HIS ADULT LIFE.
Why didn't they build it in Port Huron access to 69 and 94 less traffic
What happened to the blue water bridge?
Already have 2 bridges in Port huron/Sarnia, newest 1 in early 2000's
125 life is sad. there is a rail road bridge built in 1830 still in Use handling 220 ton locomotives, the bIG MACK IS COMING UP ON APX 65 YEARS AND WILL LAST OVER 200 YEARS
I would assume that is a conservative figure. If maintained well like the Mac, it should last longer than that. Although I don't know how well those large cable stayed bridges will hold up in the long run compared to the older style suspension bridges. I'm sure they have done studies on that. But the older suspension bridges have certainly proven themselves.
The reason new bridge is due big 3 detroit was piss due late trucks yes did happen just in time systems.the new bridge was long overdue.i know truckers from.western canada said they will never go back due delays pure simple.the old was days numbers and lack proper care.the bridge is look around world for design how will work now.thanks video😊
Huh?
That is a ridiculous cost definitely overinflated because also we have to understand we got rid of right to work in Michigan where not everybody is capable of working that job to make the good money that they spent of our money.
We need to admit that the unions are segregation centers that keep people out from opportunity when they pay themselves higher wages than many others. We should set samples and examples of equality and Fair Trade Fair Labor.
The people of Detroit who built the vehicles that go across these Bridges work heavy hours and if they walk off the line they get penalized and I watch these guys build the bridge they are standing around 50% of the time doing nothing.
This will allow more people to come from Canada easier to culture vulture our American culture.
American people don't really appreciate themselves to protect themselves. They made a bridge to defeat a monopoly Bridge by making a bigger Monopoly Bridge. 😅
AGENDA 2030 / WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
6 billion and it has a double yellow line separating directions of traffic, LMAO. Will be a deathtrap especially during bad weather.
The Ambassador bridge also has this (as do most bridges) and it hasn't proven to be an issue.
Why? The Mackinaw bridge does just fine
@@Jleed989 Yes, but the Mackinaw Bridge has a see throgh deck also, so snow would not be big issue
The reason for no median is because it will have variable lanes to account for traffic.
That Maroun guy is a greedy, jealous Hog. I still think that they should have come up with a better name for this impressive structure.
WAS a greedy guy. He’s dead now.
"Ahhh, what a Maroun" (Bugs Bunny).
@@cyberpleb2472 That he was. Google “Michigan Central Station”. He owned that too and let it deteriorate almost to destruction. They actually found a dead body in it once. Ford Motor finally bought it from the family a few years ago and it’s reopening soon after being restored.
It’s a hockey loving area. Makes sense
There has to be a better name then naming it after someone who slapped a hockey puck around
Why did we pay for everything. Americans build their share tjemselves ffs
The Michigan state legislature was dragging down the project, so the Canadian government got tired of waiting and payed for it almost entirely in exchange for rights to all tolls.
Call it "Boondoggle Bridge". Wasting Canadian tax dollars.
Nice! But you should replace the irresponsible private video dangerously flying over the working area with something from an approved source. It's not good to egg people on with toy drones by giving them more reach. Maybe even reach out to the Gordie Howe International Bridge Authority for approved video? They have MUCH nicer stuff actually taken by videographers on the bridge. In the future, working with the people running the project, using the high quality of your video presentation as an example, will get you access to better footage that's approved.
Aecom is an expert at sucking up Canadian tax dollars.
Hopefully, at the inauguration of the Gordie Howe bridge,former Prime Minister Harper will be present to witness the fruit of his vision which cements the economic and tie of friendship between the two great nations of Canada and the United States.
With the way things are going in Canada, people in the US aren't going to want another bridge.
With the way things are going in the US, people in Canada aren't going to want another bridge.
Hey!...a Russian-Chinese, supporter. He hates everything.
Well this bridge pales in comparison to what the Chinese are building.
But we’re not using slave labor
@@Jleed989 The cost of living there is not what it is here. And when the US was the renown global builder, our wages were crap as well.
Instead of spending money on infrastructure we spent it on forever wars.
Different country, different needs.
matty moroun was a horrible man.
That bridge name is terrible, there are hundreds of other worthy people from that area who did much more than simply play hockey. Kind of stupid.
You just wasted your time because the video is gonna be removed. You shouldn’t be stealing in videos from other channels. Video to come down soon.
Hi Michael,
I appreciate you reaching out, but I believe that I am well within my rights under "Fair Use." First, I use a total of 21 seconds of your video throughout the whole 10:21 video. Second, I am adding commentary and telling a story, meaning my use of the copyright-protected material is “transformative.” I am adding new expression/meaning to the original material. I recommend reading through TH-cam Help's article, titled "Fair Use on TH-cam". Third, many creators (much larger than me) employ a similar strategy of using bits and pieces of copyright-protected videos to tell a story. Fourth, as a courtesy of using your video, I tagged your channel in the top left hand of the video, and your video is linked in the description.
Long story short: I am using the copyright-protected material, but it is in small bits and is "transformative".
I've been watching your Gordie Howe videos from the very beginning. Excellent work, by the way. But I'm curious to see how this plays out. Klign's usage of your clips is appropriate, as he describes in his response. I personally think he should have credited them in the video itself though, and not just in the description.
@@jaylewis5035 Enjoy the video while it's still up...
Fair use only applies to nonprofit organizations.
@@michaelanthonyvideos Don't you have other things to worry about? ;) He credited you in the info part. The problem with success, is sometimes the camera gets turned on you instead, huh?