Snyder in Talks with Canadians in Windsor About New Bridge

[Scottathew]

Nice try Snyder/Bridge supporter.....and yet you ignore the biggest most important question that everyone wants answered.........if tolls don't cover the loan/maintainence/workers salaries....who is on the hook for the balance?

If you can PROVE to me that Michigan will NOT be on the hook for ANY FUNDS then yes build it. Otherwise.....its just a gamble....leave that to the casinos.

First off, the bridge will be paid for by tolls.

Secondly, even if it is not, can you tell me how many self-funding infrastructure projects there are in Michigan? As a matter of fact the only public infrastructure that I can think of are bridges. Buses are only partially funded by fares. Roads in Michigan are wholly subsidized by taxpayers. Michigan has thousands of bridges that have been built by taxpayers for the greater good.

So your point is not valid on both counts because:

#1 The bridge will be funded by a Canadian loan, that loan is repaid through future tolls

and #2 Even if the bridge wasn't funded wholly by future tolls, public infrastructure in nearly all cases with only a few specific exceptions is wholly subsidized by tax dollars

The more important question is, do we need a bridge? And even Matty Moroun says that we need a bridge. He just wants the lucrative tolls to go to him.

There's enough toll revenue to pay for Matty's bridge and give him a nice profit. Now wouldn't it make sense that the same tolls that would pay for the private bridge could instead be used to pay for a public bridge, in a better location, with new plaza structures, that bypassed downtown Windsor using a new freeway?