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Posted: Tuesday, 09 February 2010 3:10PM

Ambassador Bridge For Sale?



Transport Canada says it's in talks to buy the Ambassador Bridge, which spans the Detroit River to connect Windsor, Ontario with Detroit.
  
There's no word on a price that would be paid to the current owner, Manuel "Matty'' Moroun.

“We have never solicited an offer for the bridge,” said Dan Stamper, president of the Detroit International Bridge Co., owner and operator of the Ambassador Bridge, in a statement.  “If there is truth to the rumor that the Canadian government is interested in buying the Ambassador Bridge, we see it as an acknowledgement that we run the premier, most efficient crossing on the border at the best possible location between Detroit and Windsor.”

If it's successful in buying the bridge, Transport Canada says it would have no impact on plans for a new bridge further downriver.

The Canadian government has purchased land from the city of Windsor to help build a new six-lane bridge.

Officials have been working for years to add capacity at the world's busiest border crossing, now served by the current bridge and a tunnel that runs under the river.

Moroun, who wants to build a new span alongside the Ambassador Bridge, is opposing the plan for the second bridge at the new site.


© MMIX WWJ Radio, All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
 
 
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