The $6.4BN Gordie Howe Bridge: Controversy and Connection

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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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@CArchivist Месяц назад

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.

@MacNifty 24 дня назад

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.

@michaelpjeffries1521 13 дней назад

I believe the Dodge fountain art installation was restored as well.

@MacNifty 13 дней назад

@@michaelpjeffries1521 It sucks when people reclaim and restore. They always make it through their own interpretation.

@michaelsheedy Месяц назад

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.

@mergat2970 Месяц назад

On one side of the spectrum, you have people like Gilbert On the other side, you have people like maroun

@DD-vf9ow Месяц назад

😮😮😮they need to fix that one haha

@damintten Месяц назад

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;)

@orlandofields1973 7 дней назад

Living in Detroit, all the new infrastructure of the past decade has been hard to navigate, but brings money to the city, and is great for trade and to keep it flowing smoothly

@andrewlynch8777 Месяц назад

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

@MrWaldorfian Месяц назад

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.

@dknowles60 Месяц назад

and 6,4 billion is a rape ,

@chrisbarr959 Месяц назад

@@dknowles60 so is 10 $ eggs

@worfsonofmogh1154 Месяц назад

@@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?

@michaelmaas5544 Месяц назад

@@dknowles60better than the 1600’ train bridge in California that cost $13 billion and connects to nothing 😂

@guynorth3277 Месяц назад

I thought the 'fees' were being collected in Canada, as its their bridge, they paid for it, what else are you rather unsure about?

@shirleybalinski4535 Месяц назад

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.

@TheRealZionOBrien 10 дней назад

I can see both brides from my condo window. I’m so excited to cross the new bridge on foot, into Canada, next year. 😊

@BuildCore Месяц назад

Thank you for watching! I'm still relatively new to all of this, so please provide any suggestions that can help me improve future mini-documentaries. Also, if you have any projects you would like to see me cover, please share them below!

@patrickthorn653 Месяц назад

I thought it was great. Most videos like this are too long.

@patrickthorn653 Месяц назад

No one talks about this bridge and I live near it, so I was very flattered by the video. Thank you!

@spazoq Месяц назад

@@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.

@patrickthorn653 Месяц назад

Oh... It's going to be huge.

@palladini9718 Месяц назад

@@nullfield Windsor is actually south of Detroit

@jlrthebassplayer Месяц назад

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 👍

@barberdoug6930 Месяц назад

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.

@bradkubota6968 Месяц назад

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.

@OUSoonr1981 Месяц назад

I appreciate you giving us the measurements in imperial and metric.

@Elenesski Месяц назад

Good content and voice over. I subscribed. :)

@wadexyz Месяц назад

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

@RS2iscool Месяц назад

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

@bindardondat5292 24 дня назад

No individual or corporation should own or control international travel between Canada/America

@palladini9718 Месяц назад

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

@user-li7tn5fw3e Месяц назад

Thank you for sharing!!! Extraordinary work! Great Engineers!!!

@UptownKidd 2 дня назад

Great Video! I live in Downtown Detroit so I'm excited for the new bridge 🎉

@KillersCoveGaming 4 дня назад

Great video

@NW255 Месяц назад

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

@johnstudd4245 Месяц назад

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.

@markblain8438 Месяц назад

Beautiful Bridge

@cjramseyer 29 дней назад

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.

@davidroush8718 4 дня назад

That’s not true

@fatzotv 28 дней назад

20 years to build a bridge is insane… 6.5 billion to build it is even more insane

@curtgottler9961 16 дней назад

No one even asked if it was needed.

@JackReacheround 13 часов назад

@@curtgottler9961 it was

@Beansthecat99 26 дней назад

I live in Detroit and love this

@davecampbellknowledgeleader Месяц назад

Thank you.

@paulconvery680 16 дней назад

Naming it after Gordie is the best part.

@ricsmith4182 10 дней назад

when the bridge comes on line im sure all truck traffic will no longer be able to use the Ambassador because on the canadian side it goes through a residental area and that street is all tore up trucks run all night long and its a long drive to the freeway the 401 this new bridge will connect both ends to the freeway system quicker

@howardcitizen2471 Месяц назад

At first I thought it was a mistake that the OHIO legislature passed a resolution supporting a new bridge, but it actually makes sense.

@RighAlban 11 дней назад

Someone is Pocketing some serious profits, here in Scotland we just built a longer brand new modern bridge with very a similar style and it cost £1.35 billion the equivalent is $1.71 billion.

@brentgindelberger8851 24 дня назад

The 2 halves of the bridge were officially connected on June 14, 2024.

@Lcngopher Месяц назад

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

@DD-vf9ow Месяц назад

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

@wadexyz Месяц назад

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.

@fakeologist1 Месяц назад

Canada paid for everything. It's easier to jack up taxes in Canada than in the USA.

@nicholasfield6127 День назад

A vital international crossing should never have been in private ownership.

@mccalllucy1735 7 дней назад

I work on this bridge and boy is it fucking sick!!!!!

@MacNifty 25 дней назад

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

@TheTopN8 22 дня назад

It ain’t a Detroit project without one small little thing CONTREVERSY

@gONEfORnEVER Месяц назад

I've always thought of Goldie Hawn. Haha!

@geofflepper3207 4 дня назад

Well the city of Mississauga just outside Toronto has the Marilyn Monroe towers. There is some official name for them but if you look up a photo of them you'll see why everyone just uses the name of the iconic actress. Goldie Hawn did have a cottage in Ontario for years but it was far away from the location of this bridge.

@jefftomasello3258 18 дней назад

Gordi Howe was a great professional hockey player but c'mon, a 6 billion dollar bridge named after him!

@has2chevelles164 27 дней назад

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.

@paulconvery680 16 дней назад

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.

@kujonyanthawa594 День назад

what about the bluewater bridge?

@chevy4x466 16 часов назад

If this bridge is built anything like any other Michigan road, it’ll break apart within a few years

@TheMrPeteChannel Месяц назад

How will this Bridge increase traffic? Wouldn't it just take away traffic from existing routes?

@traxxmediagrouptraxx3234 Месяц назад

The ambassador is a on its last. We need a new bridge

@mtp160788 Месяц назад

Windsor, Ontario

@Gordoff-44 6 дней назад

Progress!

@ALLOFTHEBOOST Месяц назад

Greed. That's all. That's why anything is tried to be stopped.

@ATF1985 Месяц назад

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

@robwanless7551 Месяц назад

Why do you call this Detroit and Canada’s bridge? Detroit & Windsor OR Canada and United States OR Ontario & Michigan

@davidvergolini9740 Месяц назад

There is no controversy.........The public good will always trump a rich wealthy brat.

@robertmanella528 14 дней назад

Can't anyone just design a simple bridge!!!!

@michaelfick6575 26 дней назад

They Do custom border stops passports traffic?

@DD-vf9ow Месяц назад

Canadians get all tolls until the loan is paid!! Love it. Canadians have a strong public finance system for infrastructure.

@kradrumble Месяц назад

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.

@MacNifty 25 дней назад

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

@garyscharf9232 Месяц назад

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.???

@shirleybalinski4535 Месяц назад

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.

@libbydaddy8610 Месяц назад

How dies a bridge cost 6.4 bil?

@fakeologist1 Месяц назад

Bidenflation

@kennethloki7011 24 дня назад

Cause it's not just the bridge. All the infrastructure is included in that price. Of which there are tons.

@libbydaddy8610 24 дня назад

@@kennethloki7011 still...6400 million dollar bills. Hard to get the mind around but even more amazing it can be done at all.

@user-li7tn5fw3e Месяц назад

Looking forward to driving through with my new SUV.....it's absolutely exciting!!!

@whgrunow 22 дня назад

What's Two Billion dollars between friends ?? 4.5 / 6.5 billion

@dalecooper9942 Месяц назад

Why they named the Bridge after Hollywood Actress Goldie Hawn when she wasn't even from Michigan beats me.

@shirleybalinski4535 Месяц назад

HOWE NOT HAWN. GORDIE HOWE..FAMOUS CANADIAN HOCKEY PLAYER WHO PLAYED FOR DETROIT RED WINGS HOCKEY TEAM MOST OF HIS ADULT LIFE.

@aljock6927 Месяц назад

Why didn't they build it in Port Huron access to 69 and 94 less traffic

@Jleed989 Месяц назад

What happened to the blue water bridge?

@freetimeoffshore3157 23 дня назад

Already have 2 bridges in Port huron/Sarnia, newest 1 in early 2000's

@povertyspec9651 Месяц назад

6 billion and it has a double yellow line separating directions of traffic, LMAO. Will be a deathtrap especially during bad weather.

@cyberpleb2472 Месяц назад

The Ambassador bridge also has this (as do most bridges) and it hasn't proven to be an issue.

@Jleed989 Месяц назад

Why? The Mackinaw bridge does just fine

@palladini9718 Месяц назад

@@Jleed989 Yes, but the Mackinaw Bridge has a see throgh deck also, so snow would not be big issue

@Kishanth.J Месяц назад

The reason for no median is because it will have variable lanes to account for traffic.

@dknowles60 Месяц назад

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

@johnstudd4245 Месяц назад

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.

@lucmarchand617 Месяц назад

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😊

@patrickasselin2326 Месяц назад

Huh?

@lancebeamon9729 Месяц назад

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.

@cheapme1850 Месяц назад

WAS a greedy guy. He’s dead now.

@cyberpleb2472 Месяц назад

"Ahhh, what a Maroun" (Bugs Bunny).

@cheapme1850 Месяц назад

@@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.

@Jleed989 Месяц назад

It’s a hockey loving area. Makes sense

@roberturibe3150 Месяц назад

There has to be a better name then naming it after someone who slapped a hockey puck around

@MacNifty 25 дней назад

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. 😅

@michaelpjeffries1521 13 дней назад

Problem with bridge is americans wish to live in idealized past. Rather than using science & engineering to solve bottleneck crossing of international travel on a dilapidated antique century old privately owned bridge. Future on earth depends on planning and developing answers to problems facing us today. It was being built as truckers were protesting in Ottawa about border delays. And premiere was cowardly driven to bunker cottage.

@joeshmoe-rl7bk 29 дней назад

AGENDA 2030 / WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

@Michael-fl1tm 2 дня назад

I'm sure maroon is enjoying all of his billions in hell

@patrickthorn653 Месяц назад

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.

@davids9520 Месяц назад

Hey!...a Russian-Chinese, supporter. He hates everything.

@scoleman2620 День назад

Took 20 years to build a 1 mile bridge 😂

@spazoq Месяц назад

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.

@cressdiligent Месяц назад

Why did we pay for everything. Americans build their share tjemselves ffs

@Kishanth.J Месяц назад

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.

@pooransingh1882 24 дня назад

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.

@hagbard72 Месяц назад

Call it "Boondoggle Bridge". Wasting Canadian tax dollars.

@TheBaconKing32 21 день назад

matty moroun was a horrible man.

@bindardondat5292 24 дня назад

Aecom is an expert at sucking up Canadian tax dollars.

@davidgmillsatty1900 Месяц назад

Well this bridge pales in comparison to what the Chinese are building.

@Jleed989 Месяц назад

But we’re not using slave labor

@davidgmillsatty1900 Месяц назад

@@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.

@Redzwan Месяц назад

Different country, different needs.

@mkl5448 Месяц назад

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.

@michaelanthonyvideos Месяц назад

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.

@BuildCore Месяц назад

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 RU-vid Help's article, titled "Fair Use on RU-vid". 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".

@cyberpleb2472 Месяц назад

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.

@michaelanthonyvideos Месяц назад

@@jaylewis5035 Enjoy the video while it's still up... Fair use only applies to nonprofit organizations.

@spazoq Месяц назад

@@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?