Competing proposals for an international span test popular interest in design. As the second busiest crossing between the U.S. and Canada, the bridge was a key to continued robust trade between the two countries. Basically, what they drive over is not that important. But after the authority endorsed this straightforward plan in 1994, some on the New York side started to push for a different approach.
People come from one country to the next here.
Lipsey's newspaper, which dominates the local market, began agitating for a sexier bridge. Opposition did not die down. What you've got here is a series of arches. That in itself could be quite interesting. But the arches are boring, he contends, and never conjure a sense of arrival or create a dramatic presence.