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!