Whitmer vetoes attempt to let hazmat trucks cross Ambassador Bridge
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
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LANSING, MI — A provision that would have allowed trucks to haul hazardous materials across the Ambassador Bridge for the first time in several decades was struck from the $106 million state pandemic relief bill this week.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s line-item veto blocks a legislative order to the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) in the bill that would have allowed the 91-year-old bridge over the Detroit River to accept truck traffic carrying flammable liquids and other corrosive materials.
The restriction has been in place since the mid-1990s on the international crossing, which is operated by the billionaire Moroun family’s Detroit International Bridge Company.