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TRANSPORT POLICIES * USA - Ambassador bridge urges MDOT to lift hazmat limits
Such a move "strengthen the bridge's monopoly on cargo traffic". Also eliminate any crossing redundancy, which is essential in the event of a major hazmat-related accident or terrorist attack on the bridgeDetroit,MICH,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -12 June 2009: -- The privately owned Ambassador Bridge is trying to siphon cross-border hazmat business away from the Detroit Windsor Truck Ferry. But it'll need help from the Michigan government first... According to documents obtained by the truck ferry's owner, Gregg Ward, through the Freedom of Information Act, the Detroit International Bridge Company is requesting a change to the National Hazardous Materials Route Registry (NHMRR), to allow certain flammable, corrosive, and explosive materials to cross between Canada and the U.S. via the 75-year-old Ambassador Bridge. Many of those materials are currently barred from the bridge...
Not too long ago, Ward wrote to authorities asking them to do a better job enforcing the hazmat restrictions outlined in the NHMRR... Officials on both sides of the border promised to investigate, but according to Ward, not much has changed... (Pictures: -above- The Windsor Detroit Truck Ferry is the only transporter allowed to carry hazmat material across the border. That could change... Picture -below- Signs in Windsor direct hazmat truckers to the ferry. Curiously there are few, if any, such signs in Detroit)Labels: transport policies
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