A vital US-Canadian border crossing reopens after trucker blockade of Ambassador Bridge is cleared
Source: CNN
(CNN) North America's busiest land border crossing has reopened after a nearly weeklong blockade of the Ambassador Bridge by protesters decrying Covid-19 mandates, the company that owns the bridge says. he standoff at the bridge, which links Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, had paralyzed traffic between the US and Canada and crippled a key trade route for both countries. The reopening of the bridge allows "the free flow of commerce between the Canada and US economies once again," the Detroit International Bridge Company said in a statement Sunday night.
"This action follows a state of emergency declared in Ontario and an injunction granted by an Ontario judge which took effect Friday," the company said. The protest at the bridge stemmed from truckers opposing Canada's new mandate requiring them to either be fully vaccinated when crossing the Canadian-US border or face a two-week quarantine. Windsor Police earlier started arresting protesters blocking the bridge. Windsor Police Chief Pamela Mizuno said Sunday afternoon that up to 30 protesters had been arrested, most of whom were charged with "criminal mischief."
Windsor police also seized five vehicles from protesters Sunday, Mizuno said, and seven vehicles were towed Saturday. Police expect to have a heightened presence in the area to maintain order, the chief said. Let me be crystal clear: it is illegal and punishable to block and impede the movement of goods, people and services along critical infrastructure," Ontario Premier Doug Ford tweeted Sunday. "Fines for noncompliance will be severe, with a maximum penalty of $100,000 and up to a year imprisonment." Police started detaining protesters after a judge ordered them to leave the Ambassador Bridge by 7 p.m. Friday.
Some protesters moved away on their own as police approached Saturday morning. The truckers' "Freedom Convoy," which moved into the Canadian capital of Ottawa late last month, has expanded to other locations and drawn supporters resisting other Covid-19 prevention measures, including mask mandates, lockdowns and restrictions on gatherings. Canada has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, with about 4 in every 5 Canadians fully vaccinated, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. And nearly 90% of the country's truckers are fully vaccinated and eligible to cross the border, according to the Canadian government.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/americas/canada-truckers-protest-monday/index.html
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That bridge was built and opened a couple years after what would later be called here in Philly, the "Ben Franklin Bridge" (originally named the "Delaware River Bridge" ), that opened in 1926 for the nation's sesquicentennial (of the Declaration of Independence).
At the time, until the Ambassador Bridge was built, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world (I think it is just under 2 miles).
The George Washington Bridge in NY eventually surpassed the Ambassador bridge in length (completed a couple years after the Ambassador Bridge although started around the same time).
Delaware River Bridge (later Ben Franklin Bridge) (1922 - 26)
Ambassador Bridge (1927 - 29)
although other countries have gotten "fancy" with their newer suspension bridges!
Another of the same style from around that era is the Bay Bridge in San Francisco that opened right before the more famous Golden Gate -
This has been going on for a month with many of these guys and you just know they aren't independently wealthy by a long shot.
Why, it's almost like they have a sugar daddy funding their idleness.
Or think they do.
with "filler" crowds of malcontents not associated with any of the rigs that go back and forth across that bridge.
They dubbed this nonsense a "Freedom Convoy" which could just as well be a "convoy of clown cars". 
It's like the astroturf teabaggers protesting the ACA. A bunch of loons who had zero historical knowledge of what the Boston Tea Party was about. 
Excerpt from the OP yesterday when they finally started supposedly clearing people out - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142869227
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/13/world/canada-protests-trudeau-news/police-move-to-clear-bridge-blockade
Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Unless someone is protesting George Floyd's murder-by-cop or is in support of BLM and then "the rules" not only get "enforced" but get "enhanced".
