12/01/2023
MDOT needs to hear from YOU, All Residents of Michigan & Ontario! & All Organizations' Leaders! Please share widely!
Please take the time to click on MDOT's Link below...
MDOT is accepting public comment about the proposed hazmat permit through Dec. 23, 2023!
Below is a List of the numerous reasons why MDOT needs to Continue to NOT ALLOW HAZMAT across the old antiquated 90+ year-old Ambassador Bridge.
Public comment can also be submitted by emailing MDOT Public Involvement Specialist and Hearings Officer Monica Monsma at [email protected]
TELL MDOT NOT to ALLOW HAZMAT CLASS 3 or CLASS 8 on the Ambassador Bridge:
- Since 1929, Class 3 or Class 8 Hazmat has NEVER been allowed to cross the old 90+ year-old antiquated Ambassador Bridge!
- MDOT Must Continue to NOT ALLOW explosives, flammable liquids, corrosives, infectious substances or radioactive materials to be carried by trucks across this dangerously & extremely ill-prepared outdated Bridge!
- No Containment Enclosed Drain System Exists Under the old Ambassador Bridge to prevent hazmat from spilling into our Detroit River or onto Riverside Park or Detroit Streets or People!
- The New GHIB will have built-in protections such as a dual containment enclosed drainage system under its entire span of 8 Lanes, 2 of the lanes are 15ft wide shoulder lanes that will allow emergency vehicles to be able to turn around.
- Ambassador Bridge ONLY has 4 Lanes with NO Dedicated Emergency Lanes for 911 Responders & NO Shoulder Lanes & Emergency Vehicles cannot turn around!
- The majority of the year, only the 2 inside lanes are open for traffic on the Ambassador Bridge & the 2 outside lanes are usually blocked off for regular repairs & maintenance.
- Class 3 & Class 8 Hazmat Fires need FOAM to suppress fires, not water, & Foam Suppression can ONLY Reach a fire or spill on the Ambassador Bridge by Emergency Fire Trucks!
- Passenger vehicles drive in between Semi-trucks on the Ambassador Bridge & are NOT separated as they will be on the New GHIB!
- 10,000 Semi-trucks a day travel across the Ambassador Bridge with an average of 68,000 travelers a day with passenger vehicles mixed in & driving in between the semi-trucks daily.
- The Ambassador Bridge is still one of the busiest international border crossings in the Nation, it handled over $140B in merchandise trade in 2021 (approximately $390 million each day), which represents 26% of the country's exports moved by road and 33% of the country's imports moved by road. It would be financially disastrous for both USA & Canada if a hazmat fire
damaged this Bridge!
- MDOT needs to WAIT for GHIB to open & be able to safely cross the higher-risk hazmat trucks of Class 3 Class 8 on the New State-of-the-Art GHIB!
- Please MDOT, be completely aware of the realities of political favors owed & campaign contributions given from Moroun to elected officials, unfortunately, that has happened in this City &
County & State!
- The Windsor Fire & Rescue Chief, Stephen LaForet told CTV News on 11/20/2023 "My concerns remain the same as I had in 2020"! The City of Windsor will draft a response to MDOT!
- In 2017, Former Wayne County Commissioner, Ilona Varga & HF Resident Rep. met Dan Stamper, President of DIBC admitted that in his meetings with our Detroit 911 Responders such as DFD, EMS & DPD, they made issues with the fortress around the Ambassador Bridge & Plaza! These Detroit 911 Responding Units believed they did not have sufficient easy & quick access to the Ambassador Bridge & its Plaza when an accident, fire, or other disasters were to happen & the lack of accessibility delays would in turn cause further serious consequences for 911 incidents!
