Matty's Government Bridge!

Matty Moroun’s corporate alter ego, the Detroit International Bridge Company has funded a political campaign of disinformation that blatantly misrepresents the fact of the proposed New International Bridge Crossing across the Detroit River.

The theme of this disinformation campaign is that the structure is a “Government Bridge” that will consume Michigan Taxpayer dollars.

Where did Matty Moroun’s marketing experts derive this fanciful tale of the “Government Bridge”?  Well, look no further than Matty Moroun’s corporate alter ego, the Detroit International Bridge Company’s private concession operating as the Ambassador Bridge.

Then read about the Gateway Project wherein the Taxpayer dollars funded a 230 million dollar multi-year infrastructural road project to the western side of the Detroit International Bridge Company’s private concession operating as the Ambassador Bridge.

The Gateway Project was initiated in 1994 by Michigan Taxpayer Dollars to rebuild the State roadways, and bridges inclusive of Michigan Interstates I-75, and I-96 wherein traffic flowed to and from the western approaches to the Ambassador Bridge.  Construction started nine years following the initial planning of the Gateway Project, in 2003 on the first phase of what was supposed to be a six year reconstruction project.

In 2004 the Michigan Department of Transportation contracted with the Detroit International Bridge Company for its material support to complete what would be the fourth and final phase of the Gateway Project, which would cost 230 Million Taxpayer Dollars.  The completion of this infrastructural project was only recently completed, after many years of litigation fostered due directly to Matty Moroun’s Alter Ego willfully violating contractual agreements.

What Matty Moroun has failed to share with his bought and paid for political associate the Director of Americans for Prosperity of Michigan, and Michiganders at large, is that the Ambassador Bridge would be inoperable if the Detroit International Bridge Company did not legally interface with four governmental jurisdictions that enable said statutory entity to operate the Private Concession known as the Ambassador Bridge.  Would that make Matty’s Private Concession a Government Bridge?  Well according to Matty Moroun’s 31 million dollar spending spree defaming the Crossing Agreement, it certainly would!

The Ambassador Bridge consumed hundred of millions of Tax Dollars in four years, and counting.  Now why would Matty Moroun’s corporate alter ego, the Detroit International Bridge Company private concession consume Two Hundred Thirty Millions of Taxpayers’ tax dollars?  Well, the ingress and ingress to the foot of the Ambassador Bridge on the west, and eastern approaches are publically built and maintained highway systems.

On the East side of the Ambassador Bridge, there stands the  publically maintained ingress and egress funded by Provincial Taxpayer’s Dollars to maintain  the seven miles of roadway traveled by 8000 Commercial Trucks 24 hours a day, every day of the year that provides access to the Queen’s Expressway Route 401.

What Matty Moroun has failed to share with his bought and paid for political associate the Director of Americans for Prosperity of Michigan, and Michiganders at large, is that the Ambassador Bridge would be inoperable if the Detroit International Bridge Company did not legally interface with the Four Governmental jurisdictions that enable him to operate the Private Concession known as the Ambassador Bridge.

Would that make Matty’s Private Concession a Government Bridge?  Well according to Matty Moroun’s 31 million dollar spending spree defaming the Crossing Agreement, it certainly would!