Michigan Senate Committee Kills New Border Crossing

The fate of a proposed new bridge connecting Windsor with Detroit that Ottawa has called the country's "number one national infrastructure priority" is uncertain after a Michigan Senate committee voted down the proposal Thursday.

The Detroit River International Crossing, as it is known, has broad support in Canada, where the need to augment the 82-year-old Ambassador Bridge is largely undisputed. But it has been the subject of heated controversy in Michigan, where the Ambassador Bridge's private owner has been fighting an aggressive campaign to stop the new, publicly-owned crossing from being built.

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