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What's going on with the new bridge to Canada?

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Remember all the political wrangling over the "New International Trade Crossing"?
 
After that feverish campaign in the fall of 2012, where Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Maroun failed to convince Michigan voters to give him a monopoly of the Detroit River crossing between Detroit and Canada, and after Canada agreed that it would indeed pay the lion's share of the $2.1 billion it'll cost to complete the bridge – after all of that – why has there been no more movement toward getting the new bridge built?
 
Michigan Radio's political commentator Jack Lessenberry explains what's up.
 
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