Трафик через туннель Виндзор-Детройт снизился на 12% после открытия моста Горди Хоу

Windsor-Detroit tunnel traffic down 12% in month since Gordie Howe bridge opened, says its CEO Tal Czudner predicted a drop around 10%, and thinks it'll be near 7% for September The head of the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Corporation says traffic is down roughly 12 per cent since the Gordie Howe International Bridge opened to vehicles one month ago on July 27. CEO Tal Czudner predicted a drop — but not that much. “We budgeted around 10 per cent,” he told CBC Radio’s Windsor Morning host Amy Dodge on Thursday. “I was off by a couple of points. We're actually down around 12 per cent in passenger vehicle traffic, which is not bad. And that equates to about 500 cars a day.” In September, StatsCan will release the number of vehicles that made their way along border crossings. In the first five days the span was open to traffic the agency reported more than 41,000 crossings at the Gordie Howe bridge. CBC News reached out to the new span and the Ambassador Bridge for more up-to-date numbers, but has yet to hear back. - Gordie Howe bridge saw more than 41K crossings into Canada in first 5 days: StatCan - VideoDetroit-Windsor Tunnel saw traffic bump after Trump's Gordie Howe bridge threat Czudner says in August the tunnel saw 4,676 cars a day compared to August 2025 when there were 5,425. For July 2026, there were 5,054 cars each day that went through the tunnel — down from 5,240 cars a day for the same month in 2025. “People make their decisions based on time and money and obviously destination. But we're still the cheapest way to get from Windsor to Detroit," he said. "And if you're going anywhere downtown, if you're going to the hospitals, you're going to work anywhere in the downtown core, the tunnel would presumably be the quickest and easiest way to get there.” According to Czudner, he expects the 12 per cent dip to climb back up to around a seven to eight per cent decline for the month of September. He says the morning commute — normally the crossing’s busiest time — continues to get quicker. “The morning commute used to take 15 minutes, 16 minutes. Now it's probably between five and 10 minutes.” - Cross-border cocaine: How it’s detected and why it’s such a problem - New bridge, same traffic: Why is the road to the Ambassador Bridge still packed with trucks? The tunnel is jointly owned and operated by the tunnel corporation which gets its funding from the cities of Windsor and Detroit. Czudner says effect of the trade war is also showing itself in the numbers. “The average family or person going over to the States, that's probably dropped around 10 or 15 per cent. So you see weekend traffic … that's down further," he said. "I really think that the whole tariff and elbows up campaign is going to have lasting effects on borders for years.”