From a small town farm boy being raised in Saskatchewan to having such a colossal structure named after him. This means a lot to me, a small town farm boy from Saskatchewan. We all miss you, Gordie!

Fantastic. A Canadian hero, a Detroit hero

Those workers have become part of a historical event in the construction of the Gordie Howe bridge and have etched their names in history. A great achievement.

@grassfireu

Ай бұрын

Every bridge is awesome and a great achievement.

@suddenlysolo2170

Ай бұрын

Really? I doubt you can name one worker today much less in a decade from now. Who built the Peace Arch bridge....?

@bensteel3944

Ай бұрын

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge went down in history as well. Bet the workers do not want to be named for that one.

@spazoq

Ай бұрын

@@suddenlysolo2170 There are always Museums with the names of people who built massive projects like this.

Toronto boy here. I love Detroit. Some of the best games I've ever seen were against the Red Wings! Congratulations to all the hard workin' folks who built this for us. Thanks for the great report.

The perfect name. Gordie was obviously Canadian but he connected America and Canada together thorough the shared love of the game and his great abilities on the ice highlighted by his amazing career playing in Detroit. 👌

The iron workers are amazing. I’m happy to see their attention to safety. Great teamwork.

That's an awesome accomplishment. Just working contractually between the US and Canada was probably no cakewalk.

@robertjulianagnel1100

Ай бұрын

Canada paid the full cost of the bridge. US only paid for customs and roads on their side

@thehotcorner3337

Ай бұрын

@@robertjulianagnel1100 Thanks for the info

@JimBarnes-me6cu

Ай бұрын

@@robertjulianagnel1100it’s because it benefits Canada more, not like we need anything from Detroit since auto sector died

@JimBarnes-me6cu

Ай бұрын

Also kills me they make sure to have women as spokes person even tho 98% of everyone working on it is men😂 imagine putting out male nurse spokesperson when 91% are women lol

Ай бұрын

It's considerably easier with Canada picking up the tab (to be reimbursed by tolls in the future)

These guys have done a great job building this bridge

Love the name. One helluva hockey player. Ironworkers Local #3, Pittsburgh Pa.

Canadian here. My country is paying the full upfront cost of the bridge, the US Customs plaza, and the highway connection to I-75. Because it will be vital for a large part of our entire country's trade. The USA is fairly indifferent to it thus they know they can con us into paying for it.

@pleasureincontempt3645

Ай бұрын

Benefit versus cost ratio. I’m Canadian too and you can lick my tax-dollary taint.

@3markaw

Ай бұрын

It was more about the owner of the Ambassador bridge obstructing any legislation authorizing funding thereby keeping his near monopoly on tolls.

@rickyma3189

Ай бұрын

​@@3markaw I find it crazy to believe a bridge between two countries can be privately-owned.

@blauer2551

Ай бұрын

Thanks for paying buddy, send us all your chip trucks too.

@haweater1555

Ай бұрын

@@blauer2551 Poutine trucks.

This is amazing and heartwarming! It's hard to accept that we need a passport to travel between our nations. 2005 was the first time I had to show ID at the border after countless crossings. Passports soon followed. Oh well, at least we have Nexus. Hats off to all who've constructed this incredible link!

A majority of international truck traffic from the whole Ontario will shift to the new bridge. The current private Ambassador bridge connects downtowns with many slow signalled intersections crawlinh through Windsor. The new bridge will have direct freeway access on our side (already built and finished years ago.) The GHB will have more expensive tolls for trucks, but for drivers the time and frustration saved will mean taking it is a no-brainer.

@randywatts6969

12 күн бұрын

I remember driving my big truck through 17 stoplights from the bridge to way out in Tecumseh to get to the 401!

Excellent report - an excellent exemplar for local news.

@Hybridog

Ай бұрын

I agree and I don't even live there. It is so nice to see a news team do a story that is longer than 30 seconds and that has some actual detail and information. As a former local TV news employee, I'm saying these folks did a great job. Hat's off!

Truly remarkable. Great reporting & video!

Once this bridge opens, it will dramatically transform the city of Detroit itself. Given the huge amount of trade between the USA and Canada going through the Detroit/Windsor area nowadays, it means a dramatic speed-up in cross-border goods movement.

Amazing work by the bridge crews!

Canada fully funded the building of the Gordie Howe bridge..

@SeanP7195

25 күн бұрын

Not true.

@SchnuffiJames

24 күн бұрын

@@SeanP7195 The new targeted opening date means the international border crossing will now cost $6.4 billion Cdn, up from the original $5.7-billion cost estimate - a cost that will be borne entirely by the Canadian government, a Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority spokesperson said.

@SeanP7195

24 күн бұрын

@@SchnuffiJames Yes, but Canada will receive all toll fees. It was a good agreement that kept the bridge out of private ownership. Canada will easily make money off the bridge. In due time. So, who pays for it is a disingenuous statement. Who gets paid for it is the more important aspect. And as we all know, that bridge will get insane traffic. So, anytime any American crosses over, their toll dollars will go to Canada. They keep it all. And at an estimated 7-10k vehicles a day, that should buy a lot of Moosehead.

@SchnuffiJames

24 күн бұрын

@@SeanP7195 The Ambassador Bridge has a toll and that goes to the owner I wounder if he will reduce rates.

@SeanP7195

24 күн бұрын

@@SchnuffiJames Well he died and his son is just as bad. He will raise them most likely. As I stated on a different post. He was so cheap he would not supply heat or water at his facilities.

Congratulations! That's great job!!!

Once we have a bridge, we can finally visit each other, as there was no other way to do so previously

Cool. Great work.

This would be a good time to do a Dukes of Hazard Reunion episode.

Its amazing what people can do.

Modern engineering, it truly is something to marvel at .... amazing.

@protic4

Ай бұрын

Yes! Humanity can do such great things when we focus on the right things 😁

When the two side finally meet the should have a ball hockey game!! Let the elbows fly!! Gordie sure would...

The coefficient of the expansion of ferrous materials (steel) is .000047 inches per degree F x inches of length. That small number adds up for 1.5 miles and 100 degree difference. As a machinist this was important for fine shrink fits where a cool part and warm part were mated, never to be sparated after equalization of temps.

beautiful! good work humans!

This is the type of work that position engineers as pillars of society, not those engineers solely committed to making products/gadgets for the rich and constantly coming up with new ways to make life easier for the wealthy.

You know I have followed the construction of the bridge since it began and NONE of the so called media kept up on this marvelous construction. until now that it is in its final stages. This has been covered by many drone operators but basically zip, nada, nothing from any of the media in Detroit or Windsor.

@cynthiacarter532

18 күн бұрын

Live in Oregon, grew up near San Francisco and had never heard of it until browsing on KZread a few weeks ago. Now I'm following it with great interest. My question is did the Ambassador Bridge's greedy owners contribute to the decline of Detroit over the decades?

The burger joints must be doing a good business.

3000 years from now Egyptians will wonder how this was ever built.

bacon smugglers have big plans for gordie's new bridge

@mikelouis9389

Ай бұрын

Maple syrup will flow, slowly.

@noelgenoway9360

Ай бұрын

Yu funny 😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣🤣🤣

@BMW_Z4idiot

Ай бұрын

Big Sam will get a steadier supply of Canadian lettuce.

@gordonwelcher9598

Ай бұрын

Nobody wants that round Canadian bacon, it's just a tough piece of ham.

@mikelouis9389

Ай бұрын

@@gordonwelcher9598 Who said Canadian bacon? Traffic flows both ways.

I was shocked to find that many other bridges spanning the US to Canada are really old. We need to address these old structures, as they will degrade over time. I know maintenance monitors the fatigue on the spans, but like anything in life, fatigue takes its toll on structural members over time. There is a reason marching troops break ranks when marching over bridges.

@TK-mf5in

Ай бұрын

Is the reason for breaking ranks because they fear failure? Or the enemy blowing it up while they’re on it? 😂

@buckbenelli8

Ай бұрын

That takes money, money the rich do not want to pay. The rich used to leave legacies in their name, not anymore. They still think they can take it with them to mars.

Good they put the supports where the ships wont run into them.

I can't wait to walk to Canada.

@chrisgraham2904

Ай бұрын

There is no pedestrian or bicycle traffic planned for the bridge.

@finnfogal2581

Ай бұрын

@@chrisgraham2904 yea there is

@randywatts6969

Ай бұрын

Won’t be allowed

@SchnuffiJames

24 күн бұрын

@@chrisgraham2904 Yes there is

@SchnuffiJames

24 күн бұрын

You can now on the Rainbow bridge at Niagara falls.

🇺🇸🤝 🇨🇦

Very good be successful

..The way the cables come over the bridge deck is a problem during winter.. Here in B.C we have the Port Mann Bridge which drops ice bombs from the cables onto the deck/cars causing some major damage.On the Port Mann they ran some heating cables up along the bridge cables to minimize this problem but ice bombs still happen ..

I know this is a really strange, if not nerdy question, but what was the measuring system used in the design and construction of the bridge? American Imperial, inches and feet, or Canadian Metric. Please don't say both because you will NEVER meet in the middle if you use both. Like I said, a nerdy question.

@potblack6043

Ай бұрын

metric is usually the trade language worldwide when it comes to civil engineering. Yes America too.

vancouver still has the widest cable stayed at 213 feet 10 lanes

Creating new bridges of epic scale is the kind of thing that made America great in the first place, especially one as unique as an International bridge. Next up, the new Francis Scott Key Bridge, undoubtedly a cable stayed span that will be a gorgeous new gateway from Baltimore Harbor to the world.

@r.dunkley9625

Ай бұрын

You're such a insular, typical, inward thinking American believing that all the engineering, knowledge and expertise required to design and build this bridge came only from Americans and none of it came from Canadians and people of countless other nationalities who have no doubt contributed greatly to the remarkable human (and not just American) achievement that is this remarkable bridge that, by the way, is named after a Canadian hockey player.

@gfymaobama3524

Ай бұрын

IT TOOK 24 years to build it is NOTHING to marvel at unless you were working on it. Steady paychecks for you guessed it the democrats favorites unions!

@JohnRoss1

Ай бұрын

The Canadian Government bankrolled the bridge to get it started as a public Private consortium between Michigan and the Government of Canada. Canada is also covering the cost overrun. It is a vital trade link improvement. The owner of the Ambassador Bridge really tried to stop it.

@haweater1555

Ай бұрын

​@@JohnRoss1They really had to wait for the old guy that owned the existing bridge to die before the new bridge project to proceed in earnest.

@chrisgraham2904

Ай бұрын

The Americans are only managing and paying for the infrastructure (roads, customs..etc.) on the American side . The bridge is being paid for, managed and constructed by Canada.

The engineers that did all the calculations are breathing a sigh of relief that the pieces line up. Even the cable tension has to be exact.

Wow! Kudos to you, Glenda Lewis! I couldn’t have covered that story.

From a 76 year old Canadian, a big thank-you to all the construction men and women who made this happen. 🫂

I have heard from someone who works at a business underneath the bridge that there is a 2ft difference in height where the ends are meeting.......😮😮😮😮

That guy looks like KFC Cornel Saunders lol😂 The joining of the bridge will consist of an expansion joint to compensate for expansion and contraction of the bridge based on temperature. Most bridges have these type of joints. Often it looks like a metal comb similar to whats on escalator steps.

I wonder if there are any plans for ice mitigation on the cables? This bridge looks just like the Alex Fraser and Port mann bridge in Vancouver which suffer from ice build up with the chance of falling on cars all winter long... They spend a fortune dropping chains down the cables with rope access.

Just 85 feet. That's just over 28 yards. A quarterback can throw a football that distance.

@billsmith5109

Ай бұрын

Slap shot a puck?

It could be a toll bridge, like other bridges, such as Blue Water Bridge between Port Huron Michigan and Sarnia Ontario, and International Bridge between Sault Ste Marie Michigan, USA and Sault Ste Marie Ontario, Canada.

@icelover3

Ай бұрын

It is a toll bridge.

@powershop1903

Ай бұрын

Canada paid for the entire bridge and will collect all tolls.

@dkennedy7502

Ай бұрын

it will be a toll bridge with all the tolls collected on the Canadian side.

@czogg99

Ай бұрын

All bridges between USA and Canada are toll bridges. That is how they pay for maintenance.

@dkennedy7502

Ай бұрын

Total amount of the tolls will be collected and kept by Canada to pay for the bridge

"Cut to fit". Always wondered that. More or less impossible to nail it from the print

Finally !

That looks like a bridge I was driving over a decade ago 🧐

Hope there aren't chunks of ice falling off those cables in the winter.

They could leave the gap open to save money: you would just need to drive very fast to jump over the gap.

Media event, time for the show ponies to trot out with their brand new hats hats and orange vests.

Joining the 2 bridges is going to be a customs nightmare!

Oh god, you hope the engineers got this one right. We haven't had a ton of luck with infrastructure in this country lately.

Thanks to Canada footing the bill.

Compared to China's longest such bridge (cost per sq ft): Gordie Howe International Bridge $55,523,101.80 USD Hutong Yangtze River Bridge $56,980.06 USD

24 years in...... so the connection will be made over the next couple of years?

@billsmith5109

Ай бұрын

I know. Too bad they can’t bill the private owners of the Ambassador Bridge that held up this project for years, just to maintain their monopoly. They even funded an election in attempt to change the Michigan State constitution as part of the attempt. Fortunately democracy won, and they were voted down.

The Anbassador Bridge opened in 1929. Construction started in 1927; it took about 27 months. It is a suspension bridge vs. the Gordie Howe’s cable stay construction. Why did the Gordie Howe take so long to build?

@calvinsmith6681

Ай бұрын

Regulations regarding worker safety and health are much stronger now than they were back then and as a result slows things down. The Ambassador Bridge is also only suspended in the middle which speeds things up.

I moved out of the region in 2010 after 8 years of hearing promises this 3rd crossing would happen. Glad it is finally happening although it is taking 22 years to actually happen. A good example of how our politicians are disconnected from the real world populate is living.

Wow

I heard the ambassador Bridge is next

come on gordie gitR dun

Well, hopefully you can keep someone from hitting it and have thought that part of it through.

@kristoffermangila

Ай бұрын

Nah, it's ok, it's a cable-stay bridge, no piers in the middle of the river.

thank you Stephen Harper, Trudeau has nothing to do with this

@trickolas78

Ай бұрын

He will take all the credit, however

So I'm guessing the Mackinaw Bridge - a longer span - is a suspension bridge and not a cable stayed bridge?

@thomashong2938

Ай бұрын

It’s a suspension bridge.

This should be called the "Simon Girty Bridge". It looks like an airplane cheese-grater.

I hope the section fits.

@wilfredbruce5327

Ай бұрын

I hope they remember to measure at least twice before cutting. It would be a bear if they came up short by inches.

@bauch69

Ай бұрын

It will. They actually just place the last piece in position and then release some tension in those cable to the last piece get squeeze between the two side of the bridge.

@Eagle00pr

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

How much did it cost us?

@thomashong2938

Ай бұрын

The US taxpayer? Nothing. The Canadian taxpayer? Billions of dollars.

VERY IMPORTANT POINT ! Those LAWS, OF THERMO-DYNAMICS. Same as railroad rails - sidewalkd, ASPHALT ROADS = engineers NEED to have expansion joints, on highways where the seasonal temperature changes, more than 20 degrees F. Canada, especially needs them. Cracks, every 10-15 feet or so. They pave a road, a year and longer ; cracks.....take a H I N T.....

TWENTY FOUR YEARS??

@kristoffermangila

Ай бұрын

Blame the (former) state senators of Michigan (many of 'em Republicans) and the owners of the Ambassador Bridge.

@Bedroomeyze

Ай бұрын

@@kristoffermangila You are so right! There were many obstacles that tried to prevent this from happening.

Looks scary as howe.

wonder if you'll be able to walk across it

@itsurboidonnie

Ай бұрын

i think they said something about having bike lanes on the bridge

@js-wq6zy

Ай бұрын

@@itsurboidonnie yes, walkers and cyclist welcome but remember it is a border crossing and will have a toll cost.

@dkennedy7502

Ай бұрын

yes you will be able to walk or bike across it as well

Detroit must be proud. Good PR for Detroit

Imagine you need to use the bathroom and they tell you the portapotty is on the other side

there was an explosian on baltimore

Cool bridge! Hope it was made with American steel like the old days of American steel.

@bobsacamano1274

Ай бұрын

Canada paid for it so they should use their steel. But of course, being fair-minded and all around nice folks, they’ll probably use Yankee materials too.

@gregpost3320

12 күн бұрын

@@bobsacamano1274 I read the steel came from a mill in Quebec.

The Manny Maroon Family Probably Start to Lose Money on The Ambassador Bridge The Maroon Family Owns.

Is the Canadian half done in Metric? 😅

@andrewbaker277

Ай бұрын

Good One!

What? No pylons for a container ship to run into? Someone must have put some real thought in this design.

@testingtesting4534

Ай бұрын

Charleston and Jacksonville and Tampa Florida have them. Impressive to drive across.

Imagine being one meter away from connecting the two decks and realized it's 50 cm off ....

@SyntaxOverflow

Ай бұрын

They can certainly deal with such issues

I may be wrong, but doesn't Canada share thousands of miles of land border with the USA? what miraculous, economy enhancing properties is this bridge supposed to be enabling? this is being presented as if it's a great achievement ; something akin to the first transatlantic cable

@ES-hr6vg

Ай бұрын

I suggest you look at a map of major cities that actually “border” each side of the border and then reformulate your question.

@htopherollem649

Ай бұрын

@ES-hr6vg being more specific, I recognize that the bridge will facilitate an ease for the transfer of goods and people henceforth unrealized. my comment, though, is that while now, it is easier , these transfers were previously not impossible. ie. not an awe-inspiring achievement akin to the likes of the first transatlantic cable. more an example of an infrastructure project intended to hasten capital trading. whilst beneficial, a much more mundane accomplishment

@kennethloki7011

Ай бұрын

​@htopherollem649 current crossings can no longer handle the traffic load. Not to mention the other bridge is privately owned, out dated, and potentially dangerous in the near future. I don't remember the exact price it cost to cross, it's been 20 or so years, but even back then it made new York Bridge tolls seem cheap. No clue on current prices, just heard they're not exactly a fair price.

@billsmith5109

Ай бұрын

@@kennethloki7011For standard 18-wheel semi round trip, $135.45 USD. Passenger car, $16 USD, round trip. $12.50 with multi-pass.

@gregpost3320

12 күн бұрын

@@htopherollem649 Both sides now connect directly to major highway infrastructure on each side of the border. The other bridge does not. If you've ever crossed from either side, it's a literal gong show. Time is money and most of the Canada/US border traffic crosses in this corridor. That's why it's such a timely achievement.

Would have been nice if the americans could have chipped in to build the fucking thing

@marks6385

Ай бұрын

We pay way more than we should around the world.

No rail? Missed opportunity.

@sommebuddy

Ай бұрын

They have tunnels in Port Huron and Detroit already...

6 years...damn...lol

24 years? I think the golden gate took 2. Correction, it took 4.

@Bedroomeyze

Ай бұрын

Blame the Ambassador Bridge owner

@dkennedy7502

Ай бұрын

Canada was trying to get this bridge started for years, They even paid for the road leading up to the bridge in Michigan several years before the bridge was started.. In the end Canada fully funded the construction of this bridge other wise it would not have been built!

@billsmith5109

Ай бұрын

It took way more than four years from first mention of possibility of building the Golden Gate to completion. They didn’t spend 24 years with wrenches in hand.

@dkennedy7502

Ай бұрын

@@billsmith5109 It took so long from when Canada first suggested building the bridge until the start because the USA would not help fund the bridge the , in the end Canada FULLY funded the bridge and still is with no help from the USA, I suggest that you do some research before making stupid comments like you just did

@billsmith5109

Ай бұрын

@@dkennedy7502 I don’t know when they started the clock on 24 years either. I remember discussion of need for a second bridge during Mr. Trudeau’s first term as Prime Minister. Whole concern was the North American auto industry which was much more focused in Ontario and Michigan than now, and heavily integrated across the border. There might have been separate assembly lines but you couldn’t buy a car in either nation that didn’t have some parts made in the other. There even used to be this whole sub-industry of independent air freight companies that moved parts around from suppliers in the Midwest to the assembly lines at the last minutes to keep the lines on schedule. Old Convairs to twin-engines Cessnas. I don’t know if it still exists. That’s Pierre Elliott, not Justin by the way. Haven’t read the history. Just the papers and the National news real time for decades. I guess my point was that there had been talk of replacing the ferries at the Golden Gate long before they sold bonds to finance the bridge. I am way too young to remember that real time.

China would have built 50 comparable bridges in the same time period.

It's embarrassing it took 24 years to complete

@kristoffermangila

Ай бұрын

Lets just say Poli(f***ing)tics and vested interests have a hand in delaying the bridge's construction.

@gregpost3320

12 күн бұрын

Blame that on the owner of the other bridge. He fought this till his dying breath.

All the employees sound like they are hiding something. Sus.

Glenda is quite attractive

The Detroit Ironworkers Local 25 are all bad asses!!! They get the job done!!!! 💪💪💪🔩🔩🔩!!!!!

Trump 2024! Save America!

So the problem is that the carbon rebate will be called the carbon rebate? What is wrong with you?

There is already a bridge in private hands who will be in unfavorable competition with government and a tunnel.

@texaswunderkind

Ай бұрын

Such a vital resource never should have been in the hands of a private citizen in the first place.

@luccac6247

Ай бұрын

@@texaswunderkind so let government control everything is your logic? Worst words to ever hear are … “Iam from the government and here to help” Ronald Regan . Everything they touch they manage to screw up. Private citizens can and will do a better job managing this. So save your boot licking

@thomashong2938

Ай бұрын

The tunnel isn’t really any competition since commercial vehicle traffic isn’t allowed to use it.

@thomashong2938

Ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@luccac6247 “Private citizens can and will do a better job managing this.” Well, not the ones who own the Ambassador Bridge, judging by past history.

The Chinese would have had that built in about three weeks ... LOL's

doesnt look strong enough.

Looks great, my question is why the state spent millions and millions of dollars preparing the roads and overpasses in and around the Ambassador Bridge then decide on the Gordy Howe bridge? Something smells very fishy to me. When the government gets involved in business I think we need to look into some bank accounts, if you know what i mean.

@icelover3

Ай бұрын

The Canadian government paid for the entire construction of the bridge.

@dfirth224

Ай бұрын

Canada paid for it. It will be used mostly by trucks to avoid the two lane Ambassador bridge. The new bridge is six lanes wide.

@paulmore4118

Ай бұрын

@@icelover3 that doesn’t answer my question, and again what is government doing in business ? Who is paying the US part of our $. You’re talking about a lot money we have to pay back. And what about the money we paid at the Ambassador bridge

@icelover3

Ай бұрын

@@paulmore4118 I'm Canadian so I don't have your answers; mainly because I don't care to do the research.

@dkennedy7502

Ай бұрын

The bridge was and is fully funded by the government of Canada!

Wow they rebuilt the bridge fast. Too bad the boat hit it. The truss bridge before was beautiful.

I'm sure Trump will be along soon to tell everyone He built the bridge,"it's the best bridge everyone is saying it...I built this bridge and made Canada pay for it. I think the name should be The Trump Bridge though,everyone knows it. I don't know who this Gordie Howe is. I'm sure he's a guy that did something, I just don't know what."