Detroit–Windsor

Yeah.

Um, well, I mean, I grew up in Ontario, not too far away from you guys, uh, 45 minutes from Detroit-Windsor border, so I didn't, you know, um, obviously I grew up playing sports.

I was, you know, obviously more into hockey, so I didn't grow up...

I had a mountain bike maybe when, you know, just for riding around on the farm and stuff like that, but I didn't do any mountain biking when I was a kid or anything.

No, not at all.

The North American auto industry is so highly integrated that a single car part might cross the Detroit-Windsor border, like, half a dozen times before the vehicle actually rolls off the assembly line.

It's a massive logistical web.

Exactly.

We had a scooter.

I was trying to remember what it was called, but it was like the Detroit-Windsor, because, you know, Windsor's right across the border, scooter club.

And like they would, I used to work at this bar, which is hilarious when I'm talking about this.

I worked at this bar called the Tap Room, and every Wednesday night they would have like scooter club meetings in there.

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the Windsor-Detroit border more times than I can count.

Yeah.

And I never heard any klaxons, or sirens, or anything.

Yeah.

So just this week, we unveiled our, a series of interpretive signs, which we're referring to as our Windsor-Detroit Cross River Tour.

Uh, this was part of our community benefits plan that was a really important aspect of project delivery.

Um, on each side just outside of the entrances to the multi-use path, we have eight signs, so eight outside of the US port of entry and eight outside of the Canadian port of entry.

So it's about four hours away.

It's near the Detroit-Windsor border.

And I did four shows over the last couple of days, and I didn't get in until midnight last night.

So I had to get up this morning and go doing human things this morning, like the chiropractor and groceries and cleaning the kitchen and doing all sorts of stuff like that.

Canada is a foreign trading partner, sure, but they are literally our next door neighbor in Michigan.

And what people don't know is that the Michigan-Detroit-Windsor corridor is the busiest commercial land border crossing between the two countries.

It's significant to our trade policy.

It's significant to everything and very important to Michigan.

Boy, former Governor Rick Snyder got to experience it in a completely different way on foot.

The bridge now connects Detroit and Windsor with a direct highway-to-highway link between I-75 and Highway 401.

After more than 25 years of planning and nearly eight years of construction, the bridge finally opened to vehicles July 27th, and nearly 8,000 crossings were recorded on the first day.

Let's bring in former Governor of the great state of Michigan, Rick Snyder.

So the American side, actually, we parked in historic Fort Wayne, which I hope that has an opportunity to come back.

That's an incredible asset in the city that very few people know about, that there's an old fort there.

On the Windsor side, they were telling me about how bicyclists and people go to the sandwich shops nearby.

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