The Ambassador Bridge is a 1.4-mile steel/concrete suspension bridge that spans the Detroit River, connecting the US city of Detroit, Michigan with the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario. Originally opened in 1929, the Ambassador Bridge is now one of the most economically important bridges and border crossings in the United States and Canada, carrying over 25% of the total US/Canada trade in terms of value. It forms a particularly vital link for the American and Canadian automotive manufacturing industries. Somewhat unusually for a major transportation route and international crossing, the Ambassador Bridge has been operated as a for-profit commercial enterprise since its original construction; currently the bridge is owned by Matthew Moroun, whose company also owns and operates the duty-free shops at either end of the bridge.

The bridge was originally painted black and remained that way until 1995, when it was repainted teal as part of a 5-year renovation. Design-wise, this is a fairly standard suspension bridge with steel truss approaches, but I'm quite fond of the rather elaborate Art Deco styling of the concrete supports/anchorages at either end of the suspension span. I can only imagine that the rebar and concrete pouring work for these must have been a real pain, especially for the late 1920's.

Features

• Detailed hand-modeled recreation of the Ambassador Bridge, approaches, interchange with I-75/I-96 on the Detroit end, and adjacent Bagley St. pedestrian bridge, as well as the US and Canada customs complexes. (whitearcades-ambassadorbridge)
• NEW For those with World Update 11 installed (which already includes a model of the Ambassador Bridge), this scenery now includes a separate package to add missing ramps, customs buildings, and enhanced lights to Asobo's model of the bridge. (whitearcades-ambassadorbridge-wu11)
• LOD models used
• Some static trucks placed (from native library) to flesh out the inspection and duty-free shop areas on the US side.
• Customized night lighting (illuminated signs on the two suspension towers, roadway lighting, 'necklace' lights on suspension cables, plus marine warning lights as needed)
• Some terraforming and vegetation tweaks as needed.
• Landmark/POI marker placed on World Map

New in Update 1.1

• Added World Update 11 compatible scenery package to add some items back in that Asobo's otherwise excellent model of the bridge did not include (some approach ramps, I-75/I-96 interchange, pedestrian bridge). Note that this doesn't replace their model of the bridge itself; it doesn't seem like it's possible to place an exclusion polygon that will remove it, and besides, I think it's a very good model.
• Some adjustments to material properties and texture mapping for various models.
• Adjusted terraforming polygons

Installation

Download the ZIP file and extract either "whitearcades-ambassadorbridge" or "whitearcades-ambassadorbridge-wu11" to your Community folder:

For the Microsoft Store version: C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_\LocalCache\Packages\Community
For the Steam version: C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community

(If you have a previous version of this scenery in your folder, make sure to remove it before copying the current version in.)

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