THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE

THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE

The “Ambassador bridge connects Canada to the United States. It goes from Detroit, Michigan United States to Windsor, Ontario Canada. This is one of the busiest bridges in Michigan, and Canada. The travel on this bridge is busy because of the 150,000 jobs it has created, and with a total of 13 billion U.S. dollars which is a yearly production.

When this bridge was finished in 1929 this was the largest suspension bridge in the world. It was 1,850 feet high. And a length of 7,500 feet in length, with a height of 386 feet above the waver, and 155 below the surface of the water. It is made of 21,000 tons of steel.

There was a sidewalk that you could ride a bicycle over or you could walk over the bridge. This is closed now due to the 911 attack.

On an average day there is about 10,000 commercial vehicles that cross over the bridge, and some 4,000 plus cars and cyclists cross over.

They are considering of redesigning the bridge to make it larger to a double span bridge to allow more traffic to cross over. When this is finished this will connect directly to to I-75 and also to I-96. And on the Canadian side they will reroute the traffic to highway 401. As of right now it connects to highway 3 and this goes through the heart of the city. This is supposed to be finished in 2009. As of yet I’ve heard no other news about this.

Since they had to replace some of the concrete on the bridge they took the old concrete and put it in a park in Canada for a hiking trail and bike path.