The Ambassador Bridge is a bridge that spans the Detroit River from Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The bridge is one of the few privately owned US–Canada crossings; it was owned by Grosse Pointe billionaire Manuel Moroun, through the Detroit International Bridge Company in the United States and the Canadian Transit Company in Canada. The bridge carries 60 to 70 percent of commercial truck traffic in the region.[1]
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The Ambassador Bridge is featured in Roads to Nowhere starting in 4 days after people when no trucks shuttle cargo over the Ambassador Bridge from Detroit to Canada.
The roadway after 150 years.
It was properly introduced in 150 years after people where the show stated that when it opened as a gateway to Ontario in 1929, the Ambassador Bridge stood as the longest suspension bridge in the world and in the time of humans, it was the busiest border crossing between the U.S. and Canada, carrying one quarter of the merchandise including most of the auto parts traded between the 2 countries. However, 150 years after people have let the vertical suspension cable give way and nothing will ever cross the bridge again. Steven S. Ross stated that the vertical suspension cables are exposed to the wind and weather making them vibrate in the wind and turning it a major area and major maintenance problem for any keeper of a suspension bridge. After people, no one will repair the damage in the cables. Steven S. Ross stated that the weak spots are at the bottom of the cable where it tie into the deck.
The vertical cables lay over one of two horizontal white lines known as catenary cables with 37 steel strands, each about a foot in diameter, interweave to form one of the catenary cables. Steven S. Ross stated as multiple cables break, it changes the shape of the white catenary cable that holds the it because it's no longer taking an even amount of weight at each interval. Another vertical cable snaps and a segment of the deck crashes into the river where a 150 foot gap gashes through the road to Canada. Within seconds after the first segment falls, the other sections fall and the roadway to Canada is no longer crossable.
The fate of the remaining Ambassador Bridge is revealed in 200 years after people when the white horizontal catenary cable that once held up the span is ironically helping to topple its remains. Steven S. Ross stated that the big cable is anchored on either side and when the deck is no longer at the bridge, the tension will be uneven. He continues that the towers would bend toward the land side, the tops spread apart, and put strain on the towers. The towers have finally yield, and as the last remains of a great transportation link disappear, the Ambassador Bridge falls on either side.
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