Comments on: Comrades, bridge backers are enemies http://chrisschnurr.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/comrades-bridge-backers-are-enemies/ Commentary on news on politics in Windsor. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:41:49 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Paul Levesque http://chrisschnurr.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/comrades-bridge-backers-are-enemies/#comment-355 Paul Levesque Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:50:52 +0000 http://chrisschnurr.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/comrades-bridge-backers-are-enemies/#comment-355 It's amazing the boogeymen that frighten people. There is no conceivable way that customs for the bridge and tunnel can be consolidated on the US side. The "linking" roadway on the US side - the one that would under Cobo somehow and pop up in the "200 booths" airport style customs? - is so ludicrous, that I'm sure SEMCOG, Carmine Palumbo, the City of Detroit Planning Department and MDOT would blink back at you in staring disbelief if you said this was an option. It is not even remotely viable. Maybe, only maybe, if Kwame wanted to commit hari kari on a brainless idea. Why the bridge company threw that out there two years ago is not such a mystery - they have a long history of obfuscating the issues to delay resolution and sabatoge dialogue if it serves their purposes. That being said, Mr. Boscariol, you bring up an excellent point - fix the roads to the existing crossings, then worry about new ones. It’s amazing the boogeymen that frighten people.

There is no conceivable way that customs for the bridge and tunnel can be consolidated on the US side.

The “linking” roadway on the US side – the one that would under Cobo somehow and pop up in the “200 booths” airport style customs? – is so ludicrous, that I’m sure SEMCOG, Carmine Palumbo, the City of Detroit Planning Department and MDOT would blink back at you in staring disbelief if you said this was an option. It is not even remotely viable. Maybe, only maybe, if Kwame wanted to commit hari kari on a brainless idea.

Why the bridge company threw that out there two years ago is not such a mystery – they have a long history of obfuscating the issues to delay resolution and sabatoge dialogue if it serves their purposes.

That being said, Mr. Boscariol, you bring up an excellent point – fix the roads to the existing crossings, then worry about new ones.

]]> By: chrisschnurr http://chrisschnurr.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/comrades-bridge-backers-are-enemies/#comment-354 chrisschnurr Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:33:40 +0000 http://chrisschnurr.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/comrades-bridge-backers-are-enemies/#comment-354 Mark - Have you considered contact the Canadian Transit Company themselves and posing this very question? As you are aware, I attended the Community Outreach session with other interested unaffiliated individuals and posed this very question to Mr. McMahon. Now I'm not in a position to aptly explain what the Bridge company had intended, and, if you have questions, I would highly suggest you contact him and pose your questions. These are the very questions and concerns they want to hear about. That is of course if anyone dare talk to the Bridge Company. Mark –
Have you considered contact the Canadian Transit Company themselves and posing this very question?

As you are aware, I attended the Community Outreach session with other interested unaffiliated individuals and posed this very question to Mr. McMahon.

Now I’m not in a position to aptly explain what the Bridge company had intended, and, if you have questions, I would highly suggest you contact him and pose your questions. These are the very questions and concerns they want to hear about.

That is of course if anyone dare talk to the Bridge Company.

]]> By: Mark Boscariol http://chrisschnurr.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/comrades-bridge-backers-are-enemies/#comment-353 Mark Boscariol Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:45:44 +0000 http://chrisschnurr.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/comrades-bridge-backers-are-enemies/#comment-353 I think the border debate obfuscates the real issue of why do we worry about a third crossing when we have never finished the roads leading up to the first two? I have a different problem with the Ambassador Bridge company than many windsorites As a downtown proponent, I am mainly worried about the Bridge's proposed plan to move tunnel customs to the bridge. The bridge has stated that those plans "were on the back burner" 2 years ago but only recently bid on the downtown parking garage that is used by tunnel customs on our side. Moving tunnel customs to the Bridge would eliminate any potential to improve our downtown to downtown link that is one of our areas best hopes. Detroit is having success revitalizing its downtown through a focused residential drive, new streetscape and Tax incentive financing for new businesses. (while Detroit city's population shrank by 50,000, Detroit's downtown population grew by over 1000). Windsor needs to increase its links to downtown and the Bridge has never formally said it would drop its proposal to move tunnel customs out of downtown, only that it was on the back burner, while at the same trying to buy assets used by the tunnel operations. I can't support a private company that is working to end any hopes I have of tying our two downtowns together through initiatives such as combining our Riverfronts/Riverwalks etc... Even if they're initiative is on the back burner, that is not acceptable, I want it assurances it is placed in Deep Freeze, permanently. Support our downtown by advocating for the same development incentives and streetscaping that are working in Downtown Detroit and that have worked in every downtown that has implemented them. Mark Boscariol I think the border debate obfuscates the real issue of why do we worry about a third crossing when we have never finished the roads leading up to the first two? I have a different problem with the Ambassador Bridge company than many windsorites

As a downtown proponent, I am mainly worried about the Bridge’s proposed plan to move tunnel customs to the bridge. The bridge has stated that those plans “were on the back burner” 2 years ago but only recently bid on the downtown parking garage that is used by tunnel customs on our side.

Moving tunnel customs to the Bridge would eliminate any potential to improve our downtown to downtown link that is one of our areas best hopes.

Detroit is having success revitalizing its downtown through a focused residential drive, new streetscape and Tax incentive financing for new businesses. (while Detroit city’s population shrank by 50,000, Detroit’s downtown population grew by over 1000).

Windsor needs to increase its links to downtown and the Bridge has never formally said it would drop its proposal to move tunnel customs out of downtown, only that it was on the back burner, while at the same trying to buy assets used by the tunnel operations.

I can’t support a private company that is working to end any hopes I have of tying our two downtowns together through initiatives such as combining our Riverfronts/Riverwalks etc… Even if they’re initiative is on the back burner, that is not acceptable, I want it assurances it is placed in Deep Freeze, permanently.

Support our downtown by advocating for the same development incentives and streetscaping that are working in Downtown Detroit and that have worked in every downtown that has implemented them.

Mark Boscariol

]]> By: Michael Hickenbottom http://chrisschnurr.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/comrades-bridge-backers-are-enemies/#comment-351 Michael Hickenbottom Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:09:19 +0000 http://chrisschnurr.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/comrades-bridge-backers-are-enemies/#comment-351 Tovarisch! The Imperialist hordes are at the gates! Now is not the time for capitalist cowards and fascist rats! We must all contribute, from those according to their abilities to those according to their needs and come up with THE 5-year plan that will defeat the Bridge and bring the People's Republic of Windsor to its glorious Marxist destiny. Nazdravaljah! Tovarisch!

The Imperialist hordes are at the gates! Now is not the time for capitalist cowards and fascist rats! We must all contribute, from those according to their abilities to those according to their needs and come up with THE 5-year plan that will defeat the Bridge and bring the People’s Republic of Windsor to its glorious Marxist destiny.

Nazdravaljah!

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