An agreement between Canada and the United States should pave the way for construction to begin on a bridge between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario.
It also shoulders Canada with more of the costs.
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Later that year, the project was briefly jeopardized by a failed, multimillion opposition campaign from billionaire Manuel “Matty” Moroun, who owns the only other bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor. The Ambassador Bridge is one of the rare international crossings that is privately held; the other existing link in the area, the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, was built in 1930 and is operated by a company jointly owned by both cities.
The Detroit-Windsor corridor is one of North America’s busiest commercial border crossings and is the path for a large portion of U.S.-Canada trade.
