NY Times examines plans to add Detroit-Windsor span

The New York Times looks at both proposals to add an additional border crossing between Windsor and Detroit -- one public and one private.

Excerpt:

More than a mile of teal-painted steel rises over the Detroit River, just another bridge really but for the thousands of trucks and millions of dollars in goods that rumble across it each day between the United States and Canada.

In fact, this ordinary four-lane bridge is the busiest commercial border crossing in North America, carrying one-third of all road trade — or more than $122 billion in goods a year — between the two countries.

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