Gordie Howe Bridge Project Team Looks for a Third Period Comeback
The Gordie Howe will be the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America and fifth-longest in the world, easing congestion at the busiest crossing between the two countries.
The late Detroit Red Wings hockey great Gordie Howe was beloved in his native Canada and in his adopted U.S. home. A new international bridge connecting both places is trying to create similar goodwill for border traffic, but the project’s public-private partnership team and the Canadian government authority it is working for will have to join together to shift lines and mount a comeback in the third period of its construction.
The $4.5-billion Gordie Howe International Bridge is planned to connect Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, by the end of 2024 with six lanes of traffic. Having no overhead structure, it will relieve the limits on the height of trucks that use the current options at the busiest commercial border crossing between the U.S. and Canada—the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor tunnel.