Article published November 09, 2009
Road Warrior: 11-09
The Blade's Road Warrior advises readers each Monday where the biggest driving headaches will be throughout the construction season. He'll tell you the locations to avoid and the detours to take.
If you travel to southern Ontario much and have come to enjoy the relatively low toll on the eastbound Blue Water Bridge at Port Huron, Mich., your enjoyment of that bargain appears near its end.
The Michigan Department of Transportation has scheduled hearings for Dec. 1 and 2 at several locations on a rate proposal that would double the eastbound car toll, from $1.50 to $3, and raise commercialvehicle tolls by nearly as much.
The hikes would bring the Michigan tolls for the Blue Water on par with the fares collected on the Canadian side for westbound traffic. The Blue Water will remain cheaper than the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, however, and it also has the advantage of having a freeway immediately on the Canadian side, rather than the gauntlet of traffic lights that is Windsor’s Huron Church Road. The Ambassador’s $4 basic car toll is matched at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.
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