bridges, was: Make It Make Sense

In <1031k1k$dvf$3@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:

On 2025-06-19 1:21 PM, danny burstein wrote:

In <1031g9t$dvf$2@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
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Certain border crossing points are also surprising. Windsor and Detroit
are separated by a river that basically runs north-south so when you
cross the border on either of the bridges or the tunnel, you are
travelling east to west when going from Windsor to Detroit, not
north-south as you would expect.

 
"either of the bridges"?????  Counting the days until Gordie Howe opens...

My mistake, I thought the Gordie Howe bridge had already opened.

There are a bunch of overhead signs on Canada's (?401?) highway
approaching Windsor which are a combination of sheet metal on
the left and LED displays on the right.

The printed side says (roughly, and in both English
and French [I'm just doing English])

"Time to crossings:
"Tunnel:
"Ambassador Bridge:
"Gordie Howe Bridge:"

And the LED side would have,
to just make up an example,
"10 minutes
"12 minutes
"11 minutes"

Right now (well, a few weeks ago...) the
illuminted side simply said "testing".

I've written to both the Ottowa minister
of highwys (or whatever his title is...)
and to the bridge authority office in
the States begging them to activate
the LEDs and have them display:

"10 minutes
"12 minutes
"six months"

Got a boiler plate response from the
bridge folk that they'd consider it.

Nothing back from the Canadian minister...


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