A Visit to Windsor's 'Morounville'

[animatedmartian]

I agree. I've heard he's down to his last 2 or 3 billion.

Tough life owning a monopoly.

[Sandhouse]

If I remember rightly, Moroun bought the houses on the east side of Indian Road a number of years ago, but the City of Windsor will not issue demolition permits for them. This provoked a bitter feud between the city government and the remaining occupants on the west side of the street, who get to stare at boarded-up windows. A quick Google Maps tour of the street shows at least half a dozen houses on the west side of the Indian Road now boarded up, in the southernmost block, so maybe Moroun is buying them, too, as residents get fed up and leave. That is probably preferable to leaving these properties to front on either blighted houses, vacant lots, or the replacement bridge, if it's ever built.

I think the Moroun scheme is best thought of as a replacement, and not a twin, span. It remains to be seen whether the remaining truck users of the Ambassador Bridge will be subjected to harassment once the Howe Bridge is done. I predict Ontario will somehow outlaw through-truck use of Huron Church Road, to improve local traffic conditions and force traffic onto the new route. That would really penalize Moroun's truck lines. Right now, he's paying truck tolls to himself, and selling himself untaxed Diesel fuel at the duty-free gas station. Moroun profits several ways from the bridge/trucking bundle of businesses.

[Smirnoff]

Are the politicians in Windsor the same as Detroit MO......

[Richard]

Not sure if they could per-say outlaw through trucks because they would be shooting themselves in the foot restricting trade,remember they are predicting massive amounts of future trade,on a side note the new tunnel project that was going to be constructed with the new bridge has been shelved because of projected losses do not cover costs.

[Newdetroit]

I am confused. Perhaps this is a stupid question, so forgive me if it is.
I understand how you can own land abutting the Detroit River, but does that parcel of land give you title to the river, and if so, until where? Meaning, how can you own title of airspace or any part of the Detroit river to put a bridge connecting land you own in Windsor and in Detroit? I would think that this would be federal or state land/airspace/territorial waters.

[animatedmartian]

I am confused. Perhaps this is a stupid question, so forgive me if it is.
I understand how you can own land abutting the Detroit River, but does that parcel of land give you title to the river, and if so, until where? Meaning, how can you own title of airspace or any part of the Detroit river to put a bridge connecting land you own in Windsor and in Detroit? I would think that this would be federal or state land/airspace/territorial waters.

Pretty much. Parcels that are on the river end either directly at the shore or a few feet into the river [[sometimes enough space for docks and marinas). But to build a bridge across the river requires approval by both the US and Canadian government.