NEW Construction Update | Gordie Howe International Bridge

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The Gordie Howe International Bridge project has recently achieved a significant milestone. Construction crews have successfully connected the two sides of the bridge by installing the final edge girders. This marks a major step forward in the project, which is now in the ninth step of a 13-step construction process. The bridge is expected to be completed by September 2025.
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Here are some facts about the Gordie Howe International Bridge:
Length
The bridge is about 1.5 miles long and will be one of the five longest bridges in North America when it's completed.
Design
The bridge is cable-stayed and has a main span of 0.53 miles, which is the longest of any cable-stayed bridge in North America. It also has the longest composite steel and concrete bridge deck of any cable-stayed bridge in the world.
Towers
The bridge's Canadian and US towers are each over 625 feet tall, but will eventually reach a height of 722 feet.
Bridge deck
Construction of the bridge deck began in December 2022 and was expected to be completed by the end of June 2024. The deck is made up of 54 segments, including a custom-built mid-span closure that takes four to six weeks to install.
Cables
The bridge has 216 stay cables, and all but 10 were installed by mid-June 2024.
Path
The bridge will have a 12-foot-wide path for pedestrians and cyclists, which will be the first legal way to cross the Detroit River on foot. The path will connect to local trails and streets on both sides of the bridge.
Connections
In the US, the bridge will connect to Interstate 75 with dedicated ramps, and 1.9 miles of the highway will be widened and rebuilt.
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@michaelanthonyvideos 7 күн бұрын

Happy 4th of July to everyone! 🇺🇸🎆

@soothvideos 7 күн бұрын

Nice opening with the cute houses and suddenly you’re in a construction zone. Nice work Michael!

@michaelanthonyvideos 7 күн бұрын

@@soothvideos I’m glad you like it! Thanks for watching.

@HowToHaveFunOutdoors 6 күн бұрын

Great video

@michaelanthonyvideos 6 күн бұрын

@@HowToHaveFunOutdoors Thank you!

@DetroitMichigan-mx6yz 5 күн бұрын

Amazing video, thanks for posting!

@michaelanthonyvideos 5 күн бұрын

@@DetroitMichigan-mx6yz My pleasure!

@thomasrobinson8336 7 күн бұрын

Hey Michael Happy 4th of July !!!

@michaelanthonyvideos 7 күн бұрын

@@thomasrobinson8336 Thank you Thomas! Happy 4th to you as well! 🇺🇸

@jays.4254 7 күн бұрын

You do not disapoint Michael, now I love seeing how they are going to incorporate the existing neighborhood with the bridge. It is fascinating all of this. In reading all the numbers involved, I wonder how many years it will take Canada to recoop this bridge. Ovioously, they thought it was a good idea for both countries. I will be sad to see the Ambassador go but I know it will be a few yers before they close this and start to dismatle it.

@michaelanthonyvideos 7 күн бұрын

@@jays.4254 Thank you Jay, that’s very kind of you! I’m still surprised that Canada is paying for the whole project, including all the improvements around the bridge on the Detroit side. They’re even putting in new trees along the roads and giving Detroit homeowners funds for home improvements. Unbelievable.

@user-kp2rr8xf7x 6 күн бұрын

If tolls will be $10.00 per trip times the forecast 25,000 trips per day equals $2,500,000 equals $ 75,000,000 per month times 12 months in a year equals $900,000,000 per year, times 125 years forecast lifespan of the bridge. All this recovery plus a vast increase in commerce between Canada and the U.S over the next 125 years. Sounds like a great deal to me plus what will the Detroit/Windsor look like in 125 years with all this prosperity and growth? My guess is the privately owned Ambassador Bridge will be patched up and reserved for trucks.

@michaelanthonyvideos 6 күн бұрын

@@user-kp2rr8xf7x That’s interesting to have the Ambassador Bridge for trucks only. Canada will benefit from this bridge since they export more products than the US does.

@jays.4254 6 күн бұрын

@@michaelanthonyvideos Holy Cow!! Really??? They are paying for the Detroit side? WOW, they must know that it will be successful. I had no idea, Amazing

@michaelanthonyvideos 6 күн бұрын

@@jays.4254 Yes, they’re paying for everything. They even donate to southwest Detroit charities.

@michaelpatrick6950 7 күн бұрын

The cost overrun mirrors the Great Hall project at KDEN. Its scope was to remodel the terminal to handle passenger numbers 2x the original airport design while improving the security screening. Originally budgeted for $700M and completion in 2021, It’s now expected to cost $2.3 BILLION and won’t be completed until 2028; both numbers are still growing. Owned by the City of Denver, the project was a couple hundred million over budget in the first 6 months. The city paid the original multi-national project team $183M to go away in that first 6 months. The airport head was able to retire with full benefits.

@thomaskirk9546 7 күн бұрын

Not sure how this comment about Denver airport fits in with Howe bridge.

@michaelanthonyvideos 7 күн бұрын

@@michaelpatrick6950 What’s with all those murals at KDEN?

@patrickhughlynch56 7 күн бұрын

A Wonderful socio economic - cultrual - videographic statement

@cyberpleb2472 7 күн бұрын

Canada paid for it of course. I used to live in Windsor and cross the border every day to work in the US. It was an eye-opening experience.

@michaelanthonyvideos 3 күн бұрын

Thank you so very much for your kind words!

@dennisgreen1837 6 күн бұрын

Nice to see some construction details in the later parts for us engineering nerds. Those pans are getting redundant.

@michaelanthonyvideos 6 күн бұрын

@@dennisgreen1837 thanks

@blueman5924 7 күн бұрын

Interesting how some civil engineers still design streets with a strip of dirt/grass between the street and the sidewalk. The days of maintaining grassways is over I thought. Great flights.👏🇨🇦🤙

@michaelanthonyvideos 7 күн бұрын

I always thought those strips of grass are a waste of money. The cost to pay lawn maintenance companies alone is ridiculous.

@Scott_fonz81 7 күн бұрын

Astro turf is used in Canada for that @@michaelanthonyvideos

@cynthiacarter532 7 күн бұрын

Our 2002 era housing development in our small bedroom community has sidewalks without the grass strips, the older area does have them. It's a toss up-the strips look better and the sidewalks are level since they don’t have to have driveway slopes. But they're a nuisance to keep mowed and edged, etc.

@hunglikefish 6 күн бұрын

Here In Edmonton, AB the boulevard grass cutting & sidewalk snow removal is part of city bylaws, it's homeowners responsibility to maintain in front of their property. Our boulevards have trees on them that the city maintains.

@michaelanthonyvideos 6 күн бұрын

@@hunglikefish It’s the same laws in the US.

@Mike-zs7bk 7 күн бұрын

I'm guessing they use the wood to act as a vibration damper, besides being the cheapest wat to hold concrete in place.

@michaelanthonyvideos 7 күн бұрын

@@Mike-zs7bk so that’s why? A lot of people ask about the wood.

@Mistertwentythirteen 6 күн бұрын

So we just have random chickens hanging out down there? Lol

@michaelanthonyvideos 6 күн бұрын

@@Mistertwentythirteen 😄 I don’t know what’s up with that.

@leeriffee4606 7 күн бұрын

So the bridge towers are supposed to be reminiscent of hockey sticks....to me they are reminiscent of a giant pair of wishbones! IMO cable stayed bridges are just totally weird looking anyway....nothing like "traditional" suspension or truss bridges. The first time I ever even saw (or knew about) a cable stayed bridge I was driving to Savannah Georgia and I saw this huge structure that appeared to be near the road (Rt 17 south) ahead off in the distance. I was thinking to myself "what the hell is that?!?" and then when I saw that the mystery structure was a part of the road I was driving on I realized it was just a very strange looking bridge. But at least the Gordie Howe bridge has a nice sense of aesthetics (weirdness aside), which can't be said for some cable-stayed bridges out there.

@michaelanthonyvideos 3 күн бұрын

I do t see the hockey stick either 😊 Thank you for watching the video!

@kurtboginski507 7 күн бұрын

I can't even recoginize Fort Street. I'd love to have all the money spent just in lumber for this entire project. Have a Great 4th.

@michaelanthonyvideos 7 күн бұрын

You and me both! I can’t believe how much lumber is involved with this project.

@michaelanthonyvideos 7 күн бұрын

Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸

@aasstock8465 6 күн бұрын

I wash there 6 months ago

@js8805 6 күн бұрын

Uhhhh, where did you get this tid bit that the towers are "meant to look like a hockey stick mid-slap shot"? This bridge design isn't new.

@michaelanthonyvideos 5 күн бұрын

@@js8805 I got that from Bridging North America.

@scottkempton6085 7 күн бұрын

Wow...... a massive infrastructure project, surrounded by urban decay. I can't help wondering if that will ever be improved.

@jays.4254 7 күн бұрын

Oh sure it will improve, just wait until that bridge opens. Land around the bridge is ripe for new warehouses and industry. It will be great for the surrounding areas. That bridge will bring major commerce to both sides.

@michaelanthonyvideos 7 күн бұрын

@@jays.4254 It needs more improvements.

@1998bikeguy 7 күн бұрын

@@jays.4254 I sure hope so. being honest, I'm not sure I have ever seen a neighbourhood so run-down.

@cyberpleb2472 7 күн бұрын

@@1998bikeguy I take it you haven't visited Detroit. ;)

@jays.4254 6 күн бұрын

@@cyberpleb2472 No, but coming soon and it's a city that wont stay down, there are parts that are still really bad but I highly doubt that Dan Gilbert, Ford Motor Company, Little Ceasers, Google would invest in a city that it doesn't see potential and Detroit is coming back strong. Everyone is complaining that it's so expensive to live in certain areas when there is good opportunity in Detroit. you just have to see the potential.

@michaelpjeffries1521 7 күн бұрын

Taller the tower, longer the span. It is infrastructure where profits were already spent imoroving bottle neck crossing of obsolete privately owned decayed international Ambassador bridge. Same point of entry delay the truckers were protesting. In 2019 and 2020.