Ambassador Bridge

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- The Top Thirty, 03/29/2024
- The Road To Self Promotion, 03/27/2024
- Ontario Canada, 06/24/2023
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by Lingfai Leung

Title

Ambassador Bridge

Artist

Lingfai Leung

Medium

Photograph - Photographs

Description

FEATURED IN GROUPS
- The Top Thirty, 03/29/2024
- The Road To Self Promotion, 03/27/2024
- Ontario Canada, 06/24/2023
- 500 Views -1 Image a Day, 06/20/2023
- 1 A Day Waiting Room Art, 06/18/2023
- Americas Bridges, 09/21/2015
- Weekly FUN For ALL Mediums- Your Favorite Works Group, 09/11/2013
- Artists News Group, 09/09/2013
- Comfortable Art- Limit 2 Per Day Group, 09/08/2013
- Excellent Self-Taught Artists Group, 09/08/2013

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I took this photo during my city visit in Windsor Ontario in May 2013. It is my first time viewing this beautiful international border crossing bridge that spanned across Detroit River to connect Detroit and Windsor together. I am a fan of suspension bridge and had capture Thousand Island Suspension Bridge in Kingston, Ontario and hope to shoot Golden Gate Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge as well.

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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
The Ambassador Bridge is suspension bridge that connects Detroit, Michigan, in the United States, with Windsor, Ontario, in Canada. It is the busiest international border crossing in North America in terms of trade volume: more than 25 percent of all merchandise trade between the United States and Canada crosses the bridge. A 2004 Border Transportation Partnership study showed that 150,000 jobs in the region and US$13 billion in annual production depend on the Detroit�Windsor international border crossing.[3]
The bridge is owned by Grosse Pointe billionaire Manuel "Matty" Moroun through the Detroit International Bridge Company[4] in the US and the Canadian Transit Company[5] in Canada. In 1979, when the previous owners of the bridge put it on the New York Stock Exchange and shares were traded, Moroun was able to buy shares, eventually acquiring the bridge.[6] [7] The bridge is responsible for 60-70% of commercial truck traffic in the region.[8][9] Moroun also owns the Ammex Detroit Duty Free Stores at both the bridge and the tunnel.[10] It is one of the only two Canada-US border crossings where people travel North into the United States.
The Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC) now the New International Trade Crossing, involving Canadian federal and provincial and U.S. federal and states, was accepted.[11] and the U.S. government approved construction of the second bridge which would not twin the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, but create a completely new, government owned and operated crossing further downriver.

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September 5th, 2013