Increase in truck traffic calls for new Detroit/Windsor border crossing

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The crossing, deemed as necessary to accommodate trade, will have stations in Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, with the plaza on the U.S. side having close access to a major highway, unlike the two existing main crossings, the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.

Truck traffic at the Detroit-Windsor border will double in the next 30 years, which, studies by the U.S. and Canadian governments say, necessitates at least one more border crossing.

In 2001, about $300 million per weekday, or 23 percent of the surface trade between Canada and the United States, was trucked across the border between Detroit and Windsor.

An average of 10,000 trucks per day now cross the Ambassador Bridge, and another 1,400 trucks daily pass through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.

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