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Subject: Re: bridges, was: Make It Make Sense
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:40:37 -0400
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On 2025-06-19 2:57 p.m., danny burstein wrote:
> In <1031k1k$dvf$3@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
> 
>> On 2025-06-19 1:21 PM, danny burstein wrote:
>>> In <1031g9t$dvf$2@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
>>> [snip[
>>>
>>>> Certain border crossing points are also surprising. Windsor and Detroit
>>>> are separated by a river that basically runs north-south so when you
>>>> cross the border on either of the bridges or the tunnel, you are
>>>> travelling east to west when going from Windsor to Detroit, not
>>>> north-south as you would expect.
>>>
>>> "either of the bridges"?????  Counting the days until Gordie Howe opens...
> 
>> My mistake, I thought the Gordie Howe bridge had already opened.
> 
> There are a bunch of overhead signs on Canada's (?401?) highway
> approaching Windsor which are a combination of sheet metal on
> the left and LED displays on the right.
> 
> The printed side says (roughly, and in both English
> and French [I'm just doing English])
> 
> "Time to crossings:
> "Tunnel:
> "Ambassador Bridge:
> "Gordie Howe Bridge:"
> 
> And the LED side would have,
> to just make up an example,
> "10 minutes
> "12 minutes
> "11 minutes"
> 
> Right now (well, a few weeks ago...) the
> illuminted side simply said "testing".
> 
> I've written to both the Ottowa minister
> of highwys (or whatever his title is...)
> and to the bridge authority office in
> the States begging them to activate
> the LEDs and have them display:
> 
Roads and highways are a matter for the provincial government in 
Toronto, not the federal government in Ottawa. Mind you, there must be 
*some* federal involvement in the Gordie Howe bridge since it is a 
border crossing but I doubt it extends to signage....

You should try writing to the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) in Toronto.

> "10 minutes
> "12 minutes
> "six months"
> 
I saw a video a few months back showing the final spans of the bridge 
being joined in the middle and assumed from that that it would be a few 
weeks until the bridge was ready to use but it seems I was 
overoptimistic. Apparently, completion is set for September (2025) which 
traffic projected to begin a bit later in the fall. I can't find any 
more specific dates than that. I'm not sure why they'd wait more than a 
few days to actually operate the bridge after it was complete given that 
it would generate money immediately to start paying for itself.

> Got a boiler plate response from the
> bridge folk that they'd consider it.
> 
> Nothing back from the Canadian minister...
> 
Our federal civil service has grown by leaps and bounds under the past 
decade of Liberal (mis)management but they still don't do anything 
quickly....


-- 
Rhino