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Old 01-31-2012, 03:34 PM
 
Location: Toronto
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So no property on either side of the river will be taken by eminent domain? I find that hard to believe.

Maybe the state of Michigan and the responsible party in Canada should disclose to the public how much property will be confiscated. I would also like to here what their plans will be for the current Ambassador Bridge once the new ones open. Since the new bridge will likely put the old one our of business, are we going to be left with an abandoned bridge standing there for decades to come, like we have been with the Michigan Central Station? It would be quite ironic to hear the same people who are blasting Maroun about the station to blast him about the bridge.
Niagara Falls area has more than one bridge. In fact, using one bridge for heavy truck traffic, and another for lighter vehicles, would be an ideal combination.
How about bike lanes, walking paths.....
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Old 01-31-2012, 04:46 PM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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Canadians aren't fond of bulldozing residential neighbourhoods in favour of superhighways like they did in the US in the 50s and 60s.

There is no way the Canadian government will build a highway to connect to the Ambassador Bridge that will destroy historic and established residential communities. We're currently building a new highway where there is room for it - leading toward the new downriver bridge.
Supposedly, Maroun has a solution to this. He buys a handful of homes in the neighborhood and allows them to decay. The widnows are broken and left that way. Vagrants, durggies and other social dregs move in. Pretty soon the neighbors leave and have to sell their homes for next to nothing. He buys those homes for the reduced price and allows them to decay. After a while, the whole nighrborhood is a pit and no one wants to live there. Then he is doing them a favor by tearing the nieghborhood down and buidlig his bridge and getting rid of their blight (that he created). It is a win win situation!

This reportedly one of the reasons that the Candians despise Maroun.
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