Tertiary crossing between Detroit and Windsor?

Hi Viatologists,

According to the Windsor Star, an Ontario-based newspaper, there is
some discussion of a *new* Detroit River crossing. If put into place,
there would be a tertiary connection from Canada into the United
States. From what it appears, the new crossing would lie south of
Detroit city-centre and possibly connect Talbot Road or Ojibway
Parkway to the southern periphery of Detroit:

http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/ne...b-ddc2602c5343

For those who've crossed the existing border crossing, there have been
two fundamental issues delaying traffic:

(1) The Ambassador Bridge gets overcrowded, especially on weekends.
Bumper-to-bumper traffic can be seen from as far away as the
Interstate 75 junction.

(2) The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is limited to two lanes total. In
addition, getting to the tunnel from southbound Interstate 375
requires a U-turn followed by an immediate right ("Michigan Left") to
gain access.

With the proliferation of Windsor's waterside casino, extra stress is
put onto those two corridors. For pictures of the Detroit-Windsor
Tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge, the Worldwide Highway Library (WHL)--
as always--delivers:

http://worldwide-hwys.calrog.com/pho...to-canada.html

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On Mar 6, 3:18*pm, Carl Rogers > wrote:
> Hi Via-whaevers,
>
> If put into place,
> there would be a tertiary connection from Canada into the United
> States. *

We ain't gonna 'llow no Turshiaries to cross our borders.


> (1) *The Ambassador Bridge gets overcrowded, especially on weekends.
> Bumper-to-bumper traffic can be seen from as far away as the
> Interstate 75 junction.

A distance of what, a couple hundred yards? By the way, the backups
are weekdays, when the trucks are trying for their just-in-time
deliveries. That is being addressed now. There is a 20-month project
to rebuild the I-75 exit to the Bridge, and a new truck customs plaza.

> (2) *The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is limited to two lanes total. *In
> addition, getting to the tunnel from southbound Interstate 375
> requires a U-turn followed by an immediate right ("Michigan Left") to
> gain access.

Oh yeah, if you can't make that Michigan Left, don't consider the
spiral ramp down into the tunnel.

> With the proliferation of Windsor's waterside casino, extra stress is
> put onto those two corridors. *

The casino business has been reduced due to the US/CDN exchange rate;
it will be hurt tremendously more by the Homeland Insecurity border
crossing rules.

Gary V wrote:
> On Mar 6, 3:18 pm, Carl Rogers > wrote:
>> Hi Via-whaevers,
>>
>> If put into place,
>> there would be a tertiary connection from Canada into the United
>> States.
>
> We ain't gonna 'llow no Turshiaries to cross our borders.

He musta' never saw the movie 'Canadian Bacon!' ;-P

Take care,
Rich

God bless the USA...and Canada, too

--
Pat Paulsen (1927-1997) for President - 2008

Even though he's dead it makes about much sense
to vote for him as it does for the choices
that we have who are living. At least he's not
going change his position on anything.

Gary V wrote:
> On Mar 6, 3:18 pm, Carl Rogers > wrote:
>> Hi Via-whaevers,
>>
>> If put into place,
>> there would be a tertiary connection from Canada into the United
>> States.
>
> We ain't gonna 'llow no Turshiaries to cross our borders.


Oh, that's just yet more CalQaeda terrorism against the English
language. Tertiary doesn't mean third in the sense of ordinal numbers
(i.e., first, second, third); it really can only be used to mean third
in the sense of relative importance (i.e., primary, secondary, tertiary).

If a third crossing were built, the tertiary one would be the
already-existing Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, since it cannot accommodate
trucks at all. I know from first-hand experience that 45' motorcoaches
can barely negotiate the helix at the Detroit end with literally inches
to spare, so 53' trailers are absolutely out of the question -- and
that's not even getting into the Tunnel's maximum height of 13'2" (four
inches too low for most trucks).

Going OT into politics ... Here's a good reason for all the GOP-favoring
folks to oppose retroactive telecom immunity in the FISA fight -- they
should be sued to smithereens for knowingly transmitting krlrgrz'
garbage. ;-)

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