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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
I don't know.
I guess I am going digging.
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My guess is maybe you just saw a blogger, or a participant in a comment thread, speculating about something they had no actual knowledge of.
I just checked the monthly crossing statistics, and Sault Ste. Marie only gets about one fifth to one seventh as much personal vehicle traffic as either Detroit/Windsor or Buffalo/Fort Erie does -- and when it comes to trucking, SSM only gets about 3K trucks per month to Buffalo's 84K and Detroit's 128K. Which means the business case for a second bridge just isn't there the way it is in Detroit/Windsor -- not to mention that the United States would also have to build a whole interstate spur to get from Sugar Island to I-75, including a second bridge across the shipping channel that actually separates Sugar Island from the UP mainland, and that's just not happening.
Realistically, the most you'll ever see is a twinned span of the existing bridge, with the connection to Carmen's Way realigned. And even that, you won't be seeing anytime real soon.
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