A current issue in Windsor is traffic around the Ambassador Bridge. The number of vehicles crossing the bridge has doubled in the past fifteen years (since 1990) and, since the September 11, 2001 attacks, travelling through customs on the U.S. side takes much longer. The only way to access the bridge or tunnel is from three municipal roads: Huron Church Road (at the bridge), Wyandotte Street (bridge or tunnel), and Goyeau Street (tunnel).
A large portion of the traffic is 18-wheeler trucks. There have been at times a wall of trucks up to eight kilometres (five miles) long on Huron Church Road. This road cuts through the west end of the city and the trucks are the source of many complaints about noise, pollution and pedestrian hazards. While in a very good state of repair in most sections, Huron Church Road had the distinction of being number 17 on a list of Canada's worst roads, due to the sheer volume of truck traffic (over 14,000 trucks per day, with an additional 4,000 cars per day driving on it.
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In the summer of 2003, the Windsor City Council was hearing so many complaints from residents in Sandwich Towne Neighbourhood and the West side neighbourhoods that they proposed banning all truck traffic from city streets within the city limits. This was met with strong protests from Queen's Park (Toronto), Parliament Hill (Ottawa), and from Sarnia, Ontario, which operates the nearest bridge, the Blue Water Bridge. Sarnia's city council feared a tsunami of trucks lining up along Highway 402 and I-69/94 to cross the border, if Windsor banned them from its city streets.
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Windsor, Toronto, and Ottawa quickly reached an agreement that saw the province re-assume E.C. Row Expressway as provincially-controlled and maintained (albeit, secret and un-numbered) the freeway, and the City of Windsor would gain $300 million from the Federal government for assistance in repairing Huron Church Road and Wyandotte Street from the constant pounding of truck wheels on the pavement.
Windsor paid world famous traffic consultant Sam Schwartz to produce a proposal for a solution to this traffic problem. The city councillors have overwhelmingly endorsed the proposal and it was presented to the federal government as the solution that the city officially approves. Unfortunately, not all of the surrounding residents support the plan the city paid for. The problem with the plan is that the proposed roadway would cut through protected green space such as Ojibway Park. The federal government wasn't expecting the city to be able to agree upon a proposal of any sort and are now pushing for short term, cheaper solutions.
On November 14, 2005, the joint Canadian-American committee studying the options for expanding the border crossing announced that its preferred option was to directly extend Highway 401 westward, using a new bridge or tunnel to cross the Detroit River and inter-change with Interstate 75 somewhere between the existing Ambassador Bridge span and Wyandotte. The exact route of this new highway connection has not yet been determined. February 8, 2008 saw surprising updates in the border crossing debate. The Ontario Ministry of Transportation had announced it was buying houses on the southwest side of Windsor, near Yawkey Bush for an extension of Highway 401. The Province said they had liked the City of Windsor's "GreenLink" proposal ("sinking" Talbot Road and Huron Church Road underground, creating parkland above it, with the ramps coming out to meet E.C. Row Expressway, before separating and heading towards a bridge to I-75 near Zug Island), and was intending on following it.
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