A Visit to Windsor's 'Morounville'

[canuck]

I'm so fed up with folks dumping on Moroun. All the guy is doing is trying to make a buck.
Leave him alone to do as he pleases. A little planned obsolescence never hurt nobody.

Matty's prolly out trying to find the cheapest installation price for new windows like he did at MCS. Chances are, he'll have them put up in two to three years time.

[Honky Tonk]

I'm so fed up with folks dumping on Moroun. All the guy is doing is trying to make a buck.
Leave him alone to do as he pleases. A little planned obsolescence never hurt nobody.

Matty's prolly out trying to find the cheapest installation price for new windows like he did at MCS. Chances are, he'll have them put up in two to three years time.

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

[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.