Governor Rick Snyder is expressing frustration that the US government still hasn’t ponied up the money to pay for a new customs plaza to go along with the new international bridge in Detroit.
We have more from The Michigan Public Radio Network’s Rick Pluta.
The governor told a business conference in Grand Rapids that the New International Trade Crossing in Detroit will benefit the entire state. The governor’s pushed for the bridge against opposition from the Legislature, which balked at funding Michigan’s side of the project. So Canada is picking up the cost of the bridge. But Snyder says the US should at least pay for the customs plaza.
“To ask the Canadians to pay for a facility that the US government’s going to use with US officials to protect the US border – I don’t think that’s right,” he says. “I think that should be a responsibility of the US government.”
The governor says he still expects the customs plaza to be funded and built in time for the New International Trade Crossing to be operational by 2020.