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The Ambassador Bridge is an international suspension bridge across the Detroit River that connects Detroit, Michigan, United States, with Windsor, Ontario, Canada.Opened in 1929, the toll bridge is the busiest international border crossing in North America in terms of trade volume, carrying more than 25% of all merchandise trade between the United States and Canada by value. [3]
A US Port of Entry was established at the location in 1836, when a license to provide commercial ferry service between Port Huron and what then was known as Port Sarnia. The license was issued to a Canadian man named Crampton who operated a sailboat. In the 1840s, a man named Davenport, also from Port Sarnia, operated a pony-powered vessel ...
Michigan's Ambassador Bridge at the Detroit-Windsor border and the Blue Water Bridge between Port Huron and Point Edward, Canada ranked 21st and 28th respectively. ...
Ambassador bridge traffic use M-85/Fort St.-SB 75 exit to SB Rosa Parks to SB M85.-EB 96 exit to M-10/Rosa parks exit to SB Rosa to SB M-85. — MDOT - Metro Detroit (@MDOT_MetroDet) November 6, 2024.
Detroit police and fire officials aren't concerned about allowing hazardous materials to cross Ambassador Bridge.
The approach to the Ambassador Bridge was heavily built up making it impractical to twin this crossing and reconstruct the approach as a freeway to cope with cross-border traffic growth, even though Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun had long lobbied for this solution, making this the focus of controversy since the mid-1990s and early 2000s.
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The tunnel is the second-busiest crossing between the United States and Canada after the nearby Ambassador Bridge. A 2004 Border Transportation Partnership study showed that 150,000 jobs in the region and $13 billion (U.S.) in annual production depend on the Windsor-Detroit international border crossing. [ 19 ]