Detroit–Windsor Tunnel

Runners will start crossing the Ambassador Bridge into Windsor at around 7:30 AM.

The Windsor-Detroit Tunnel will be closed at 6:15 and reopen sometime after 10:00.

We've got the road closings up at windsornewstoday.ca.

In sports, the Spitfires take on the Owen Sound Attack at the WFCU Centre Friday night.

You're invited to help cheer on runners in this Sunday's Detroit Free Press International Marathon.

The City of Windsor, TWPE, and the Downtown Windsor BIA will set up five cheer zones along Riverside Drive, near City Hall Square, and across from the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel exit.

The first runners are expected to cross the Ambassador Bridge at around 7:30 AM Sunday.

In sports, the LaSalle Viper host Listowel in Junior B hockey Wednesday night.

We are going back to October the 7th of 1928, a quiet Sunday on the Detroit River, but a milestone date under the water.

This is the day that marked the official start of the site preparation for the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, the dredging of a massive underwater trench along the riverbed and the beginning of the fabrication of the steel and concrete tube sections along the Canadian shore near Sandwich.

And over the next two years, crews would dig a trench of more than 2,400 feet long, removing roughly 700,000 tons of earth and mud from the bottom of the river.

And nine giant steel tubes, each about 35 feet in diameter, were built in a dry dock at Ojibway and then towed into position, carefully sunk into a trench, and joined by divers with steel pins and underwater concrete.