The Gordie Howe International Bridge, the largest and most ambitious border border infrastructure project, between Canada and the United States, becomes a white elephant? The question was asked at the Tuesday edition of The Wall Street Journalplacing the crisis of the imposition of tariffs by Donald Trump as the main reason for insecurity.
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The connection of almost 2.5 kilometers between Windsor, in the province of Ontario, and Detroit, in the state of Michigan, is expected to be delivered to September 2025 and is a work that will cost $ 4.6 billion, entirely bank by the Canadians. When it is working, it will be the largest cabled bridge in North America.
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The idea was that the six -track bridge over the Detroit River becomes the central axis of a new highway highway transportation system, with associated border inspection squares, an essential connection to provide additional commerce capacity and encourage investment between the two countries.
The main commercial connection today in the region is the Ambassador Bridge, a privately owned structure built in 1929. Through it, it passes a quarter of all traffic trucks traffic between the two countries. There are about 10,000 vehicles daily through the bridge every day, in both directions. But the age of connection and reduced capacity endangered the fluidity of current trade and prevented further advances.
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The other connection is the Detroit-Windsor tunnel, which does not support heavy truck traffic, but has seen the flow of tourists fall since the exchange of barbs between the two governments.
But the threat of imposing an additional 25% tariff on Donald Trump’s products – which claimed that the neighbors were not doing enough to prevent transfronight drug trafficking – put the local automotive industry on alert.
Diário El País recently pointed out that cars are Canada’s second largest export (after gross oil). The automobile sector employs 125,000 Canadians directly and almost half a million more throughout the chain. Shortly after the US announcement, Stellantis stopped the mounting of the minivan Chrysler Pacific for two weeks and the Dodge Charger Daytona in Windsor, and 3,000 workers were sent home until April 21.
