My issue with be with how to pay for it.
We recently had our governor here in NJ nix a third tunnel project under the Hudson River to NYC; people b!tched & moaned, stooping so low as to complain that people may need it to “see a Broadway show” (since our area lost so many jobs - especially financial jobs - there are a lot less people using ALL crossings into NYC, and since those jobs moved to Manila & Bangalore, they won’t be back anytime soon).
He said it simply didn’t make financial sense, and he was absolutely right; we can’t pretend it is 1990 anymore.
Canada is giving us the money to pay for most of it and even putting up the money to buy the land for the approaches on the American side. They’ll do the toll collecting for 40 years and expect to make a profit in that time.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canada-michigan-announce-detroit-windsor-bridge-184845394.html
This isn’t high speed rail. There is an existing need here and Canada is giving us a deal that we simply shouldn’t ignore.