Canada recently announced that it has selected a location for a new Detroit-Windsor border bridge. The US site will not be selected until an Environmental Review is complete.

Currently, the only crossing between Detroit, MI and Windsor, Ontario, is the privately owned Ambassador Bridge, which does not allow hazardous cargo. The new brdige will be located in the Brighton Beach area of West Windsor and connected to Canadian provincial Highway 401. The US side will tentatively be sited in the River Rouge area and connect to I-75.

Construction is expected to start in 2009 and finish by 2014. It will reduce the distance trucks must drive to cross the border by only 5 miles, but is expected to deliver significantly more in time savings. Currently, the Ambassador Bridge is North America’s busiest border crossing, with 1.6 million truck crossings per year

For more information, including public meeting schedules, visit www.partnershipborderstudy.com.