Every bridge is awesome and a great achievement.

Really? I doubt you can name one worker today much less in a decade from now. Who built the Peace Arch bridge....?

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge went down in history as well. Bet the workers do not want to be named for that one.

@@suddenlysolo2170 There are always Museums with the names of people who built massive projects like this.

Canada paid the full cost of the bridge. US only paid for customs and roads on their side

@@robertjulianagnel1100 Thanks for the info

@@robertjulianagnel1100it’s because it benefits Canada more, not like we need anything from Detroit since auto sector died

Also kills me they make sure to have women as spokes person even tho 98% of everyone working on it is men😂 imagine putting out male nurse spokesperson when 91% are women lol

It's considerably easier with Canada picking up the tab (to be reimbursed by tolls in the future)

Benefit versus cost ratio. I’m Canadian too and you can lick my tax-dollary taint.

It was more about the owner of the Ambassador bridge obstructing any legislation authorizing funding thereby keeping his near monopoly on tolls.

​@@3markaw I find it crazy to believe a bridge between two countries can be privately-owned.

Thanks for paying buddy, send us all your chip trucks too.

@@blauer2551 Poutine trucks.

I remember driving my big truck through 17 stoplights from the bridge to way out in Tecumseh to get to the 401!

I agree and I don't even live there. It is so nice to see a news team do a story that is longer than 30 seconds and that has some actual detail and information. As a former local TV news employee, I'm saying these folks did a great job. Hat's off!

Yes! Humanity can do such great things when we focus on the right things 😁

Is the reason for breaking ranks because they fear failure? Or the enemy blowing it up while they’re on it? 😂

That takes money, money the rich do not want to pay. The rich used to leave legacies in their name, not anymore. They still think they can take it with them to mars.

Live in Oregon, grew up near San Francisco and had never heard of it until browsing on KZfaq a few weeks ago. Now I'm following it with great interest. My question is did the Ambassador Bridge's greedy owners contribute to the decline of Detroit over the decades?

Not true.

@@SeanP7195 The new targeted opening date means the international border crossing will now cost $6.4 billion Cdn, up from the original $5.7-billion cost estimate - a cost that will be borne entirely by the Canadian government, a Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority spokesperson said.

@@SchnuffiJames Yes, but Canada will receive all toll fees. It was a good agreement that kept the bridge out of private ownership. Canada will easily make money off the bridge. In due time. So, who pays for it is a disingenuous statement. Who gets paid for it is the more important aspect. And as we all know, that bridge will get insane traffic. So, anytime any American crosses over, their toll dollars will go to Canada. They keep it all. And at an estimated 7-10k vehicles a day, that should buy a lot of Moosehead.

@@SeanP7195 The Ambassador Bridge has a toll and that goes to the owner I wounder if he will reduce rates.

@@SchnuffiJames Well he died and his son is just as bad. He will raise them most likely. As I stated on a different post. He was so cheap he would not supply heat or water at his facilities.

There is no pedestrian or bicycle traffic planned for the bridge.

@@chrisgraham2904 yea there is

Won’t be allowed

@@chrisgraham2904 Yes there is

You can now on the Rainbow bridge at Niagara falls.

metric is usually the trade language worldwide when it comes to civil engineering. Yes America too.

It is a toll bridge.

Canada paid for the entire bridge and will collect all tolls.

it will be a toll bridge with all the tolls collected on the Canadian side.

All bridges between USA and Canada are toll bridges. That is how they pay for maintenance.

Total amount of the tolls will be collected and kept by Canada to pay for the bridge

Maple syrup will flow, slowly.

Yu funny 😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣🤣🤣

Big Sam will get a steadier supply of Canadian lettuce.

Nobody wants that round Canadian bacon, it's just a tough piece of ham.

@@gordonwelcher9598 Who said Canadian bacon? Traffic flows both ways.

I know. Too bad they can’t bill the private owners of the Ambassador Bridge that held up this project for years, just to maintain their monopoly. They even funded an election in attempt to change the Michigan State constitution as part of the attempt. Fortunately democracy won, and they were voted down.

You're such a insular, typical, inward thinking American believing that all the engineering, knowledge and expertise required to design and build this bridge came only from Americans and none of it came from Canadians and people of countless other nationalities who have no doubt contributed greatly to the remarkable human (and not just American) achievement that is this remarkable bridge that, by the way, is named after a Canadian hockey player.

IT TOOK 24 years to build it is NOTHING to marvel at unless you were working on it. Steady paychecks for you guessed it the democrats favorites unions!

The Canadian Government bankrolled the bridge to get it started as a public Private consortium between Michigan and the Government of Canada. Canada is also covering the cost overrun. It is a vital trade link improvement. The owner of the Ambassador Bridge really tried to stop it.

​@@JohnRoss1They really had to wait for the old guy that owned the existing bridge to die before the new bridge project to proceed in earnest.

The Americans are only managing and paying for the infrastructure (roads, customs..etc.) on the American side . The bridge is being paid for, managed and constructed by Canada.

Regulations regarding worker safety and health are much stronger now than they were back then and as a result slows things down. The Ambassador Bridge is also only suspended in the middle which speeds things up.

Slap shot a puck?

It’s a suspension bridge.

Nah, it's ok, it's a cable-stay bridge, no piers in the middle of the river.

The US taxpayer? Nothing. The Canadian taxpayer? Billions of dollars.

i think they said something about having bike lanes on the bridge

@@itsurboidonnie yes, walkers and cyclist welcome but remember it is a border crossing and will have a toll cost.

yes you will be able to walk or bike across it as well

I hope they remember to measure at least twice before cutting. It would be a bear if they came up short by inches.

It will. They actually just place the last piece in position and then release some tension in those cable to the last piece get squeeze between the two side of the bridge.

😂😂😂

Blame the (former) state senators of Michigan (many of 'em Republicans) and the owners of the Ambassador Bridge.

@@kristoffermangila You are so right! There were many obstacles that tried to prevent this from happening.

Canada paid for it so they should use their steel. But of course, being fair-minded and all around nice folks, they’ll probably use Yankee materials too.

@@bobsacamano1274 I read the steel came from a mill in Quebec.

He will take all the credit, however

Good One!

I suggest you look at a map of major cities that actually “border” each side of the border and then reformulate your question.

@ES-hr6vg being more specific, I recognize that the bridge will facilitate an ease for the transfer of goods and people henceforth unrealized. my comment, though, is that while now, it is easier , these transfers were previously not impossible. ie. not an awe-inspiring achievement akin to the likes of the first transatlantic cable. more an example of an infrastructure project intended to hasten capital trading. whilst beneficial, a much more mundane accomplishment

​@htopherollem649 current crossings can no longer handle the traffic load. Not to mention the other bridge is privately owned, out dated, and potentially dangerous in the near future. I don't remember the exact price it cost to cross, it's been 20 or so years, but even back then it made new York Bridge tolls seem cheap. No clue on current prices, just heard they're not exactly a fair price.

@@kennethloki7011For standard 18-wheel semi round trip, $135.45 USD. Passenger car, $16 USD, round trip. $12.50 with multi-pass.

@@htopherollem649 Both sides now connect directly to major highway infrastructure on each side of the border. The other bridge does not. If you've ever crossed from either side, it's a literal gong show. Time is money and most of the Canada/US border traffic crosses in this corridor. That's why it's such a timely achievement.

Blame the Ambassador Bridge owner

Canada was trying to get this bridge started for years, They even paid for the road leading up to the bridge in Michigan several years before the bridge was started.. In the end Canada fully funded the construction of this bridge other wise it would not have been built!

It took way more than four years from first mention of possibility of building the Golden Gate to completion. They didn’t spend 24 years with wrenches in hand.

@@billsmith5109 It took so long from when Canada first suggested building the bridge until the start because the USA would not help fund the bridge the , in the end Canada FULLY funded the bridge and still is with no help from the USA, I suggest that you do some research before making stupid comments like you just did

@@dkennedy7502 I don’t know when they started the clock on 24 years either. I remember discussion of need for a second bridge during Mr. Trudeau’s first term as Prime Minister. Whole concern was the North American auto industry which was much more focused in Ontario and Michigan than now, and heavily integrated across the border. There might have been separate assembly lines but you couldn’t buy a car in either nation that didn’t have some parts made in the other. There even used to be this whole sub-industry of independent air freight companies that moved parts around from suppliers in the Midwest to the assembly lines at the last minutes to keep the lines on schedule. Old Convairs to twin-engines Cessnas. I don’t know if it still exists. That’s Pierre Elliott, not Justin by the way. Haven’t read the history. Just the papers and the National news real time for decades. I guess my point was that there had been talk of replacing the ferries at the Golden Gate long before they sold bonds to finance the bridge. I am way too young to remember that real time.

They can certainly deal with such issues

They have tunnels in Port Huron and Detroit already...

Charleston and Jacksonville and Tampa Florida have them. Impressive to drive across.

Lets just say Poli(f***ing)tics and vested interests have a hand in delaying the bridge's construction.

Blame that on the owner of the other bridge. He fought this till his dying breath.

We pay way more than we should around the world.

Such a vital resource never should have been in the hands of a private citizen in the first place.

@@texaswunderkind so let government control everything is your logic? Worst words to ever hear are … “Iam from the government and here to help” Ronald Regan . Everything they touch they manage to screw up. Private citizens can and will do a better job managing this. So save your boot licking

The tunnel isn’t really any competition since commercial vehicle traffic isn’t allowed to use it.

⁠​⁠@@luccac6247 “Private citizens can and will do a better job managing this.” Well, not the ones who own the Ambassador Bridge, judging by past history.

The Canadian government paid for the entire construction of the bridge.

Canada paid for it. It will be used mostly by trucks to avoid the two lane Ambassador bridge. The new bridge is six lanes wide.

@@icelover3 that doesn’t answer my question, and again what is government doing in business ? Who is paying the US part of our $. You’re talking about a lot money we have to pay back. And what about the money we paid at the Ambassador bridge

@@paulmore4118 I'm Canadian so I don't have your answers; mainly because I don't care to do the research.

The bridge was and is fully funded by the government of Canada!