AMBASSADOR BRIDGE

DETROIT INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE COMPANY

September 28, 2020

Vi a e mail and Fed Ex

Dear Director Ajegba:

Introduction

This letter is in response to your letter dated June 4, 2020 requesting information for the

“Michigan Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) process to consider lifting the restriction and allowing the Detroit International Bridge Company (DIBC) to transport hazardous material across the Ambassador Bridge as a regular business practice.” Your June 4, 2020 letter is attached as Ex. 1.

8 (corrosive materials) hazardous materials. At

the time DIBC made that request, DIBC was fully authorized to handle, in fact regularly handled,

(and today continues to handle) the following hazardous materials:

(•ammable solids), Class 5 (oxidizers and organic peroxides), Class Class 2 (gases), Class 4 6 (poisonous materials)

except 6.2, and Class 9 (miscellaneous materials). Class 1 (explosives)

and Class 7 (radioactive

materials) requesting have been prohibited on the Ambassador Bridge and any changes to those designations.

DIBC did not and is not

In July 2010, DIBC modi•ed its request to propose that the restrictions on Class 3 and Class 8 hazardous materials be modi•ed to allow those Classes to be transported with escort vehicles accompanying the primary carrier to enhance safety.

In December 2012, MDOT issued its Hazardous Materials Routing Synopsis Report. (Attached here as Ex. 2). In that report, MDOT’s experts included proposed recommendations for the

Ambassador Bridge including: