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Originally Posted by yupislyr
That land was one of the proposed new crossing landings back during the DRIC study and the Schwartz report. Perhaps even before it.
And buying that land was just to block potential competition. If the Morouns had their way, there'd be a new 8 lane at grade highway right through Sandwich right now.
CTC plans circa 2005
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I think this could actually work if need be, but I think it would have to be fully tunneled with no interchanges between E.C. ROW and the Ambassador to avoid having detrimental effects on Sandwich. Eight lanes would also be overkill, you could probably only comfortably fit 4 in that strip of land between the ETR and College Avenue without ripping anything else up.
Regardless, it doesn't matter now, such a thing is irrelevant with the Gordie Howe coming up on completion. I'm hoping that once the Gordie Howe takes on the bulk of the truck traffic, the Morouns will sell the Ambassador to the Canadian government (as they have expressed interest in buying in the past), and then the feds can work on improving the interaction of the bridge with the local neighbourhood (i.e., reducing border plaza size, freeing up land for neighbourhood and UWindsor campus development, reconfiguring the intersection at Huron Church, etc).