The proceeds, she said, would go toward buying the house next to Mr. Moroun’s home in an affluent Detroit suburb. Mr. Moroun set out “to destroy the neighborhood in order to take it over, so that’s what he’s done,” he added. But the location of the Ambassador Bridge, which Mr. Moroun bought in 1979, is not where anyone would consider putting a busy border crossing today. A recently opened expressway will link to a new bridge that the Canadian government will build in an industrial area about three miles west of the Ambassador Bridge. “But I don’t know.”Mr. Moroun’s Canadian Transit Company operates the 87-year-old Ambassador Bridge, a hulking suspension bridge that sits between, and looms above, Indian Road and the nearby University of Windsor.

Source: New York Times June 12, 2016 23:15 UTC