Gordie Howe International Bridge to open in Fall 2025
The Gordie Howe International Bridge project team has confirmed that construction completion is planned for September 2025, with the first vehicles expected to travel across the bridge that fall.
Originally, the $5.7-billion project connecting Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, Mich., across the Detroit River, was scheduled for completion in November 2024 with opening anticipated by the end of the year, according to a news release. However, the project experienced disruptions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Like most public-private partnership (P3) contracts, the contract between the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA) and Bridging North America (BNA) provides for the schedule and cost impacts of certain risks to be shared.
As a result, WDBA and BNA have agreed to amend the contract to include the new September 2025 construction completion date, new measures to ensure this date is achieved, and an updated overall contract value of $6.4 billion.
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It is regrettable that the completion date had to be delayed, but all of us know that Covid-19 had a detrimental impact on any of our projects through 2021.
There is good news that we have a solid completion date set, and have been able to undertake the additional expenditures that are a result. The Peace Bridge has long been a steadfast piece of infrastructure that has helped us in border crossing goods movement, but the years pass and the plan to take commercial traffic off the residential streets of Detroit are simply the best case alternative.
Canada will reap the rewards of the payments to offset the cost of construction, but this will be a faster and more fluid solution for all border crossings.