$1.6B highway to link 401 with bridge at Windsor
Newsbot @ Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:42 pm
<strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="/topics/44-economy" target="_blank">Economy</a><br /><strong>Written By:</strong> <a href="/profiles/N Say" target="_blank">N Say</a><br />
<strong>Date: </strong> Thursday, May 01 at 13:12<br /><br />
<p>The most expensive highway ever built in Ontario will link Highway 401 with a new international bridge to be built over the Detroit River in Windsor..... The new highway will include 11 tunnel sections stretching about two kilometres, while other parts will be built below-grade to minimize the impact of traffic noise and exhaust on neighbourhoods. The project will also create about 240 acres of park land and 20 kilometres of recreational trails..... Highway 401 currently stops about 12 kilometres short of the border with Detroit, forcing trucks onto city streets and slowing down international trade. Provincial officials say a motorist driving from Toronto to Florida by highway encounters 19 traffic lights, 16 of them in Windsor.</p><br><a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article/235930031-16b-highway-to-link-401-with-bridge-at-windsor">read more »</a>
N Say @ Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:42 pm
here's the website for the Windsor-Essex Parkway:
http://www.weparkway.ca/
& the Transport Canada new release:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/releases/ ... -h118e.htm
RPW @ Thu May 01, 2008 5:56 pm
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...while other parts will be built below-grade to minimize the impact of traffic noise and exhaust on neighbourhoods.
Better Ontario than here, I sez!
N Say @ Thu May 01, 2008 7:16 pm
"Provincial officials say a motorist driving from Toronto to Florida by highway encounters 19 traffic lights, 16 of them in Windsor."
Once that bottleneck is eliminated a truck driver working for a Canadian trucking company could do another round trip per week (or month, or whatever). How is that a bad idea?
travior @ Thu May 01, 2008 9:50 pm
If they use a Canadian construction company, things might be okay. If they use an American company, expect it to take at least three times as long as origionally planned and the cost will be at least 1.5 times the origional figure. And tell the neighbors to by English-Spanish dictionaries so they can communicate with all the "American" construction workers! 
RPW @ Fri May 02, 2008 6:31 am
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How is that a bad idea?
It's called "Peal Oil".....http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/busin ... yt&emc=rss
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N Say @ Fri May 02, 2008 7:29 am
Instead of idling at one of the 16 traffic lights in Windsor, a truck could be on its was to its destination. With this new bypass it wouldn't have to stop at all.
_tehowe @ Fri May 02, 2008 7:58 am
This is one of the major links discussed in the NASCO superhighway plan, just another lego in the tottering structure of a plan that is the Security and Prosperity Partnership.
http://www.nascocorridor.com/faqsdetail ... 87&pageno=
"The three leaders sit down in earnest this morning [in New Orleans] for their summit session, where border issues are high on the agenda."
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/416874
There are reports that an announcement, involving $2 billion in investments, is expected on improving the situation at the Detroit-Windsor border crossing – the busiest trade corridor in North America.
Not that the connection is inherently bad, but all of the tracking technology to be implemented along with it presents a growing intrusion of the state into another najor sector of the economy, as it will then be set up to measure and data-mine trade flows more effectively as the integration of the American and Canadian economies continues apace.
sasquatch2 @ Fri May 02, 2008 3:26 pm
Currently the stop lights are not the holdup----DHSon the other end of the bridge is the hurdle even with FAST.