Detroit Windsor Tunnel marks 75 years
DETROIT & WINDSOR, Ont. — the Detroit Windsor Tunnel is celebrating its 75 year anniversary by unveiling a new international boundary marker today.
On November 3, 1930, President Herbert Hoover ushered in a new chapter in U.S.-Canadian relations when he pushed a golden button at the Capitol to officially open the mile-long tunnel. The first car through was a 1929 Studebaker touring car.
Today the tunnel is still the only international subaqueous tunnel in the world and is one of the busiest passenger border crossings between the U.S. and Canada.
Traffic at the Tunnel exceeds 6 million vehicles a year, including over 850 trucks and 5000 commuters passing through the Tunnel both ways, every day.
NOTE: Early versions of this article erroneously suggested that officials associated with the tunnel are also involved with the Jobs Tunnel Project (the Detroit River Tunnel Partnership, or DTRP), which proposes to convert the old CP rail tunnel into a commercial truck crossing.
There is in fact no connection between the DTRP and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel Corp. They are separate businesses with no overlap or relationship whatsoever. Our apologies for the error.
The DTRP tunnel idea is competing with several bridge proposals for a new river crossing between Canada and the U.S. at Windsor/Detroit. The existing tunnel is not used heavily by commercial trucks.The DTRP is a partnership between Canadian Pacific Rail and Borealis Transportation Infrastructure Trust (a subsidiary of the Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System).
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