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09/12/2025
Need Everyone to Please Support by Signing this Petition that will REACH City Council Members who need to vote in support of the Truck Route Ordinance (TRO) to Protect All Detroit Residents Citywide & put semi-trucks on their own designated driving route.
07/30/2025
12/09/2023
Tell MDOT: Don’t allow more hazardous materials on the Ambassador Bridge Instructions: Fill in your name, email, and zip code; Then click "start writing" to send your public comment to MDOT. Introduction Currently, many hazardous materials are banned from traveling on the Ambassador Bridge. However, the Detroit International Bridge Company has submitted a proposal to the...
MDOT needs to hear from YOU, All Residents of Michigan & Ontario! & All Organizations' Leaders! Please share widely!
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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infectious substances or radioactive materials to be carried by trucks across this dangerously & extremely ill-prepared outdated Bridge!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!
Hey Y'all, Why were DPD clearing out park visitors @ Riverside Park yesterday evening @ 8pm?....What were the reasons DPD was clearing out the People? All City Parks clost @ 10pm so who knows what was being stated by DPD??
05/23/2023
Joe Louis Arena will live on in new sculpture at Riverside Park Steel from the long-gone sports arena has been infused into a new sculpture at Riverside Park.
04/17/2023
A local resident neighbor in walking distance to Riverside Park POSTED these photos yesterday on Next Door communication system! MESSAGE TO ALL CITY PARK VISITORS, PLEASE RESPECT ALL CITY PARKS & NOT THROW DOWN YOUR TRASH, OR YOUR CIGARETTE BUTTS, OR ANYTHING THAT BELONGS IN A TRASH BARREL. PLEASE RESPECT ALL CITY PARKS!
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-land-deal-without-community-benefits?source=direct_link&
Be sure to Sign & copy the link & share this important Petition to Help lift the voices of the People so that our City Council continues to Stand with the People & does not transfer our city-owned parkland to DIBC UNTIL the People have a private, legally binding signed CBA that protects the health, safety & improves the quality of life for the People! DIBC Developer of their 2nd Bridge Span MUST Be Treated Just Like the GHIB Developer who did not receive even one city-owned parcel of land UNTIL GHIB Developer signed a legally binding CBA to protect the People for a $60+mil value!
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-land-deal-without-community-benefits?source=direct_link&
10/31/2021
Need Your Help to Get the Word Out:
1) The Peoples' Petition Needs Everyone's Signature &
2) ALL of Your VOICES on Wed. Nov. 3rd @ 10am to drown-out DIBC $ paid-voices!!! We Need the Real Residents of SWD & Detroit & Supporters to Zoom-in: bit.ly/DetroitCouncil = Meeting ID: 330332554 or Call-in: (312) 626-6799 before 10am to be lined up by the Host so You Can Speak to City Council!!!!
10/26/2021
Please Help to do your part by emailing, calling & showing up virtually or by calling in on Wed., Nov. 3rd to help City Council hear the Peoples' Voices to Take the Right Actions that are in the Best Interests of the People "BEFORE" our Parkland is transferred to DIBC Bridge Developer for a new 2nd Bridge!
10/21/2021
Please Show-UP Today @ 11am & Speak to Council PED Committee to Stand with the People & Protect Us via a Community Benefits Agreement BEFORE our Park Land is transferred to DIBC for a 2nd Bridge & DIBC MUST make their 2nd Bridge Plans PUBLIC & have a complete process of community engagement = Our Park Land is the ONLY LEVERAGE Council & the People have to make DIBC Do What is Right & DIBC Must be Held to the Same Standards as the GHIBridge Project Developer!!!