- sns@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish5 hours
It was completed a long time ago but not opened because the guy owning the old bridge bribed a certain child rapist who shits himself in the white (trash) house.
- Nurse_Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
Construction of the bridge was completed in June 2026, inaugurated on July 24, 2026, and opened to traffic on July 27, 2026
In 2018, the company aired television ads on Fox & Friends asking Trump to cancel the project.[162] Instead, in December 2019, Trump signed the first US funding, allocating up to $15 million, for customs and border protection for the bridge into law.
I mean, fuck trump, but what are you talking about?
- sik0fewl@piefed.caEnglish1 hour
It should have been opened in June but was delayed by Trump. Ambassador bridge owner paid money into Trump PAC. It’s all there in the article under History -> Delayed Opening.
In June, The Detroit News reported that invitations were being sent out for a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 12, with the bridge open to the public shortly after.[96] On the day before the planned ceremony it was announced that the event had been cancelled and that the opening of the bridge was delayed indefinitely to “resolve any outstanding issues”.[97][98]. Carney said that the delay had been requested by the United States, and representatives for Trump stated that his position had not changed since February.[99]
The New York Times subsequently reported that billionaire Matthew Moroun (who owns the Ambassador Bridge) had lobbied the Trump administration prior to the announcement.[91][92] The ranking member of the United States House Oversight Committee, Robert Garcia, opened an investigation into Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s earlier meeting with Moroun, sending Lutnick a letter requesting communications related to that meeting.[93] Filings released February 20 showed that Moroun donated US$1 million to MAGA Inc., a Trump-affiliated super PAC, less than a month before Trump’s announcement.[94][95]
- AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish40 minutes
You wanted consistency? Sure Trump actually did a few things right his first term, but responded to bribes a lot more in his second
- DownToClown@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
I don’t know the whole story but this happened about 5-months ago.
Trump said in a Truth social post Monday night that he wouldn’t allow the bridge to open “until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve.” Trump suggested the U.S. should take an ownership stake of at least 50% in the bridge and said that U.S. products, such as steel, weren’t used in the construction.
4 hoursSo now I’m curious as to how the US/Canada border works. It says that the bridge gives uninterrupted freeway traffic flow, but wouldn’t the international border require interruption? How does border crossing work with a bridge like this?
- 2 hours
Yes: freeway uninterrupted by city streets, which was how it was before. Highway 401 dumped you into city streets - I don’t know exactly how far away from the bridge, but one article I read mentioned 12 traffic lights between the bridge and freeway access.
So that’s what they’re talking about. Not a Shengen-style border.
Canada might just want to scuttle it soon, the way things are going. 😑
- ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 hours
They should add a massive toll to start making back what the orange turds policies cost them.
- AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish36 minutes
Part of the “problem” is the toll is too low. It seriously undercuts the the Moroun Family Bridge tolls so the fear is it will attract most of the traffic. Think of the poor billionaire who somehow bought a bridge
