from Michigan Live (http://www.mlive.com/) -- reporter Dave Eggers at Detroit, Michigan
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Canadian Transport Minister Denis Lebel on Friday June 15, 2012 signed an agreement to build a bridge over the Detroit River between Canada and the United States, as hundreds of dignitaries looked on in Detroit's Cobo Center.
Cobo is about 4 miles from the site of where the New International Trade Crossing is to be constructed. The existing options to cross between the two countries are the privately owned Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.
"Today represents a major step in Michigan’s reinvention," Snyder, who has made the bridge a top priority in his year-and-a-half in office, said in a news release before the signing.
Speaking on behalf of the business community, Jim Nicholson, president and CEO of Detroit-based PVS Chemicals, said during the ceremony: "We are all in on this bridge. This will be a game changer for our state, for our city, for the people of Delray and for the people of Canada."
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/michigan_gov_rick_snyder_canad.html#incart_river_default
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