it's not like windsor has alternatives to the events that the tunnel bus serviced. the logic that the bus is taking money out of the city is deeply flawed; the bus was taking money into the city by increasing foot traffic into it. canceling the bus is redirecting the money elsewhere.

i don't give a fuck about sports and think competition is barbaric. however, a large number of people would take the tunnel bus over to see hockey, football, baseball or basketball games. i may be mistaken, but i don't think there's an nhl or nfl team in windsor. going to a minor hockey league game is not a comparable product.

i go over strictly to see concerts and i don't even go to the big shows. detroit is still a large market. so, i could go see a band like pearl jam in detroit, or see a pearl jam cover band in windsor. pearl jam's not coming to windsor. it's not comparable.

for me, though, i don't even go to the big shows, i go to the underground parties. in the summer, detroit usually has a party going until 7:00 am. in windsor, everything closes at midnight, nowadays. you can't even find a venue open until 2:30 anymore.

so, this idea that windsor is competing with detroit is deeply wrong. windsor is simply not competing with detroit, and there's simply no way to get people that want to go to a game or a show or a party to spend that money here instead. if the mayor of windsor wasn't a retard, he'd be trying to capture some of the multiplier effect of people coming through town to spend money in detroit. instead, he's sending them to lasalle or sandwich to spend that money there, instead.