The Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit with Windsor, Ontario, is a hoary junkyard dog of old infrastructure. Built by private investors hoping to reap fortunes from its tolls, its 7500 feet of strung cable, suspended concrete, and latticework-steel stanchions opened to traffic on November 15, 1929, just three weeks after the Black Thursday stock-market crash launched [...]
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Aaron Robinson: Battling Government, Detroit Bridge Raises National Issues
